go from strings of bits to single byte (best practices?)

[eximo]

I'm looking for a more eloquent way to perform the conversion:

• Multiple strings of bits to a single byte.
• Single string into byte array representing the value of the number

See the VI for a functional but not scalable example.

Each string will have a value of 0 or 1, and they will be converted into a single byte.

I'm surprised there isn't a native function in the conversions section that allows a user to do this.

I would like to change the conversion into a function with the following inputs:

• any number of bit strings

Output:

• Byte or word

[Hooovahh]

Okay hows this.  If you know each string is only going to be a bit, check to see if the string is not a 0, then you have an array of booleans to turn into a number.

[nathand · Accepted solution]

I'm on LabVIEW 2012 and I can't open your VI, nor Hoovahh's modified version, so perhaps I'm posting exactly the same thing, but does this snippet do what you want?

[eximo]

That is more elogant than what I have