Hello,

My program reads a string of ASCII characters via a serial port, such as 07DC. This represents the decimal year (2012).

How do I get the decimal equivalent of 07DC? What i get is decimal 236 on the LCD.


Thanks,

John

Code:
INCLUDE "BS1DEFS.BAS"
DEFINE HSER_CLROERR 1   'USART CLEAR OVERFLOW ERROR
DEFINE HSER_TXSTA 24H   'SET USART TX STAUS REG 
DEFINE HSER_RCSTA 90H   'SET USART RC STAUS REG 
DEFINE HSER_BAUD 9600   'SET USART BAUD RATE
define HSER_SPBRG 25    'SET PIC OSC FOR 9600 BAUD
 
PRITIM var BYTE (16)    'ALLOCATE 16 BYTES FOR USART RX DATA

YEAR VAR WORD
 
LCDOUT $FE,1        'CLEAR DISPLAY
 
'----------------------------------------------------------------
MAIN:
 
GOSUB LCDMAIN
'--------------------------------------------------
LCDMAIN:
HSEROUT [16,142,171,2,16,3]         'TRANSMIT CMD 8EAB STATUS PACKET  
HSERIN [WAIT (56,70,65,66),STR PRITIM\16] 'WAIT FOR 8FAB - STORE PRI/TIM PACKET
YEAR = PRITIM [0] + PRITIM [1] + PRITIM [2] + PRITIM [3]
 
LCDOUT $FE,1        'CLEAR DISPLAY
LCDOUT DEC YEAR
 
RETURN