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convert, with second argument 'bytes', converts a string first argument into list of integers giving the byte values of the characters within the string.

If the first argument is a symbol (i.e. a simple name) and that symbol has not been assigned a value, it is treated as if it were a string.

Passing a list of integers as the first argument will produce a string consisting of the characters corresponding to the integers in the list. If the list contains a zero value, the string is truncated at that point.

A hardware floating point first argument is converted to a list of values corresponding to the 8-byte internal IEEE representation of the value.

A software floating point value is first converted to hardware floating point, and then converted to a list as described above.

$\mathrm{convert}\left(''Test\; string''\,'\mathrm{bytes}'\right)$

$\left[84\,101\,115\,116\,32\,115\,116\,114\,105\,110\,103\right]$

$\mathrm{convert}\left(\left[65\,66\,67\right]\,'\mathrm{bytes}'\right)$

$''ABC''$

$\mathrm{convert}\left(\left[65\,66\,0\,67\right]\,'\mathrm{bytes}'\right)$

$''AB''$

$\mathrm{convert}\left(\left[77\,97\,112\,108\,101\,0\,49\,48\right]\,'\mathrm{bytes}'\right)$

$''Maple''$

$\mathrm{convert}\left(1.23\,\mathrm{bytes}\right)$

$\left[63\,243\,174\,20\,122\,225\,71\,174\right]$

$\mathrm{convert}\left(\mathrm{HFloat}\left(-\mathrm{\infty }\right)\,\mathrm{bytes}\right)$

$\left[255\,240\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\right]$