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Contents: Description, Arguments, Usage, Examples, Related Functions Supported Under Version: >1.69 Current Davinci Version: 2.27 64-bit Safe: Yes Description Convert an object to BYTE format. Identical to byte Arguments and Return Values Arguments: Any three dimensional numeric array Return Value: The array converted into byte (0 - 255) Usage Syntax: char(object = VAL) The char() function copies and converts an object to BYTE format. Any values above or below the maximum representable values of 0, 255 are set to the nearest representable value. This function is equivalent to format(object=VAL, format=BYTE). All values are rounded down. Examples dv> a 5x10x1 array of float, bsq format [200 bytes] 81.4874 4.36053 41.7432 15.6841 35.9896 66.3147 53.2217 41.1748 66.2604 76.5872 76.9139 45.3942 71.4335 37.8209 68.3882 8.62298 84.7280 17.9986 84.2027 24.2261 90.2153 82.6485 64.6259 31.7400 88.2643 53.4477 64.4353 90.6081 87.2454 54.7980 37.0674 30.1417 21.4569 10.1529 21.2817 73.4718 68.1826 83.8363 86.1234 29.4375 74.0770 82.6730 55.1090 68.8111 11.7781 74.9024 57.8497 93.8397 1.16438 5.56536 dv> b=char(a) 5x10x1 array of byte, bsq format [50 bytes] 81 4 41 15 35 66 53 41 66 76 76 45 71 37 68 8 84 17 84 24 90 82 64 31 88 53 64 90 87 54 37 30 21 10 21 73 68 83 86 29 74 82 55 68 11 74 57 93 1 5

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