# Converting binary to alphanumeric ?

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/converting-binary-to-alphanumeric/60545>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Mainframes\
**Created:** [February 3, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/converting-binary-to-alphanumeric/60545 "2006-02-03T13:38:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Deeps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@Deeps](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Deeps)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/converting-binary-to-alphanumeric/60545/1 "2006-02-03T13:38:35Z")

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How is it possible to convert a binary word to alphanumeric one? Can we do this with redefinition?

For eg.  
I want to convert 9B720100 which is binary to alphanumeric one…

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 1:40pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/converting-binary-to-alphanumeric/60545/2 "2006-02-03T13:40:49Z")

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I assume this is the exact same question already answered at length here ?

[url][http://natural.forums.softwareag.com/viewtopic.php?t=224[/url]](http://natural.forums.softwareag.com/viewtopic.php?t=224%5B/url%5D)

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/converting-binary-to-alphanumeric/60545/3 "2021-04-02T14:40:27Z")

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