Conversion to octal

[Lorry Litman]

Hi Mike,

I don't have any code but here's an example of one method to convert decimal
to octal.

Using this method the decimal number is divided by 8, then the remainder is
taken out. The remainders will be multiplied by 8 to get the correct octal
digit. This process is repeated until the quotient becomes zero.
The remainders are used to form the octal number. The first remainder
becomes the last octal digit and the last remainder becomes the first octal
digit.

convert 372 to octal 564

372/8 = 46.5  then 0.5*8   = 4
 46/8 = 5.75  then 0.75*8  = 6
  5/8 = 0.625 then 0.625*8 = 5

If you're not sure if your math is correct in qtp and want to check it
quickly.
At the dcl prompt
$ x=372
$ show symbol x (should yield)
  X = 372   Hex = 00000174  Octal = 00000000564

If you do this in qtp I would be interested in seeing the qtp code.

Thanx
    Lorry


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Palandri [mailto:palandri@4j.lane.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 10:28 AM
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: RE: Conversion to octal


It's more VMS than specifically an edu problem. I need to set up the mass 
creation of VMS accounts in QTP; these accounts need to have unique UIC 
numbers.  It's easy enough to increment a temp in qtp, but silly ol 
powerhouse counts in base 10, while the UIC numbers are in octal.  I could 
write the code to do it, but it would be faster if someone has already done 
it, and debugged it  :o(


At 08:22 AM 10/29/2003 -0800, David Morrison - Corporate wrote:
>Ha!  After reading the question, I knew it would be from someone with an 
>"edu" suffix!
>
>David Morrison
>McBride Electric
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>From:   Mike Palandri [mailto:palandri@4j.lane.edu]
>Sent:   Wednesday, October 29, 2003 7:50 AM
>To:     powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
>Subject:        Conversion to octal
>
>Hi all,
>
>Anyone have a ready made piece of qtp code to convert a positive (base 10)
>integer to octal?
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Mike
>.
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