Ha! I saw an episode of "Big Bang Theory" where they were arguing over the binary translation of English (how many zeros and ones there should be).

Amir had made a Decimal to Binary converter that I featured, and I mentioned that a text to binary converter would be pretty sweet.

 

Well now (through the magic of Small Basic) Amir CPS has made it possible to have a conversation with zeros and ones that you have encoded in binary:

Try it out here!

   

Get your geek on! Go translate this into English! You can double click this one line, and then copy all the text at once:

010000110110111101101101011011010110010101101110011101000010000001101111011011100010000001110100011010000110010100100000011000100110110001101111011001110010000001111001011011110111010101110010001000000110011001100001011101100110111101110010011010010111010001100101001000000110001101101111011011000110111101110010

In the tool, if your cursor gets pushed to the second line, press Delete to get it up to the top line, or else you'll get an error message. Instead of copying the full line above, you can paste in these four lines, one at a time, no spaces:

01000011011011110110110101101101011001010110111001110100001000000110111101101110001

0000001110100011010000110010100100000011000100110110001101111011001110010000001111

0010110111101110101011100100010000001100110011000010111011001101111011100100110100

10111010001100101001000000110001101101111011011000110111101110010

 

It's a text to binary and binary to text converter!

Import : FTK803

Small change in codes to handle "NewLine" character

Import : BTN178

And here's the code...

1.GraphicsWindow.Width = 400
2.GraphicsWindow.Height = 300
3.GraphicsWindow.Title = "Text to Binary :
Binary to Text"
4.
5.TextBox =
Controls.AddMultiLineTextBox(10,10)
6.Controls.SetSize(TextBox,380,250)
7.ButtonTB =
Controls.AddButton("Convert to
Binary",10,265)
8.ButtonBT =
Controls.AddButton("Convert to
Text",140,265)
9.Controls.ButtonClicked =
onClick
10.
11.Sub onClick
12.  LastButton =
Controls.LastClickedButton
13.  If LastButton =
"Button1" Then
14.    ConvertToBinary()
15.  Else
16.    ConvertToText()
17.  EndIf
18.EndSub
19.Sub ConvertToBinary
20.  String = Controls.GetTextBoxText(TextBox)
21.  For i = 1 To Text.GetLength(String)
22.    CharCode =
Text.GetCharacterCode(Text.GetSubText(String,i,1))
23.    'convert ascii codes into
binary
24.    bit = ""
25.    binval = ""
26.    Count = 0
27.    While CharCode >
0
28.      bit[Count] = Math.Remainder(CharCode,2)
29.      CharCode =
Math.Floor(CharCode
/ 2)
30.      Count = Count + 1
31.    EndWhile
32.    For j = Array.GetItemCount(bit) To 0 Step -1
33.      binval = Text.Append(binval,bit[j])
34.    EndFor
35.    'add leading zero to make binary
value even
36.    For b = 0 To 8 - Text.GetLength(binval)
37.      binval = Text.Append(0,binval)
38.    EndFor
39.    longbin =
Text.Append(longbin,binval)
40.  EndFor
41.  Controls.SetTextBoxText(TextBox,longbin)
42.  longbin =
""
43.EndSub
44.Sub ConvertToText
45.  Binary = Controls.GetTextBoxText(TextBox)
46.  If Math.Remainder(Text.GetLength(Binary),8) <> 0 Then
47.    GraphicsWindow.ShowMessage("Binary is un
even","Error")
48.  Else
49.    For g = 1 To Text.GetLength(Binary) Step 8
50.      Binarychar =
Text.GetSubText(Binary,g,8)
51.      'Convert binary to
decimal
52.      For bit_Count =
1 To Text.GetLength(Binarychar)
53.        binaryNum =
binaryNum + Text.GetSubText(Binarychar,Text.GetLength(Binarychar)-bit_Count+1,1)*Math.Power(2,bit_Count-1)
54.      EndFor
55.      'get char from ascci
code
56.      Char = Text.GetCharacter(binaryNum)
57.      binaryNum =
""
58.      'append char
59.      LongString =
Text.Append(LongString,Char)
60.    EndFor
61.    Controls.SetTextBoxText(TextBox,LongString)
62.    LongString =
""
63.  EndIf
64.EndSub

 

 

What do you think?

Do you need a Klingon to Binary converter? =^)

Based on the forum thread, the community added more similar converters...

Updated version from Amir:

FTK803

Version with Base-64 Conversion from WhTurner:

BTN178-0

Ternery to Text Converter from Math Man:

PWD225-1

Hex to Text Converter from Amir:

CRP718

  

See our forum thread conversation about this Binary converter.

Enjoy!

   - Ninja Ed