IP Conversion Program

[Radical Dreamer]

I am looking to find a way to write a program that will convert an IP address to binary and vice versa, can anyone give me a place to start? I can do it in either C++ or VB, but I prefer VB

[geeksRus]

here is an explanation of what you need to do...not sure if this is what you want:

binary converter

[Radical Dreamer]

Not entirely, but definately helps!

[geeksRus]

ok...how about a VB function?

dec2bin

[Radical Dreamer]

Looks good to me, will try it soon as I get the chance

[kingtbone]

Yeah that numbver converter looks fine. Now I guess you just have to parse up the string by the "." marks. It woulda been more fun to make our own

[Radical Dreamer]

Not when you have 12 different programming projects to do in 2 weeks

[LagMonster]

Well....you could just ingore all math functions for a problem like this.. although its not the most effeciant method.. you can use all strings for this exercise.

you know how to add strings I am assuming..

When your program loads.. inflate two seperate arrays[255] each with 2 different values of strings.(you can do this the hard way or programatically)

Index Array1 Array2
0 "0" "00000000"
1 "1" "00000001"
2 "2" "00000010"
N.......

and so on.. when you need to convert from dec to bin.. simply compare the string array with the one you've parsed out.... when you match stop there.. your index is the one that contains the binary string! then visa versa.

if you run into a snag with the parse code let us know.