On Nov 11, 11:35 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote: > > A fairly fast hex-to-number conversion routine is in lines 210-260 of: > > http://home.comcast.net/~MJMahon/FSERVER.txt > > ...as I said, I try not to need INSTR. ;-) > > -michael Thanks. That is very similar to an alternate method I was thinking about using.