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I'm working on a socket script that is translating binary information on network connections. Two of the bytes are 27 88. I know by there position in the packet that it's the port number 7000. Could someone please tell me the math necessary to translate the 27 88 to 7000.

Great appreciation in advance.

Without getting into details, you can view "27 88" as a base-256 system (except that we don't use extra symbols for numbers greater than 9, but decimal representations). Having this in mind, you can calculate the port using
$calc((27 * 256) + 88) = $calc(27 * 256 + 88)
You can make an alias if you like:$calcport(27 88) returns "7000".

Works like a champ qwerty. thanks.

It's also possible to use $bvar in this way:

//bset &var 1 [color:blue]127 0 0 1 27 88 | echo IP: $longip($bvar(&var,1).nlong)

//bset &var 1 127 0 0 1 27 88 | echo Port: $bvar(&var,5).nword[/color]