Saw this: http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...ht=byte+nibble but...

I really am looking to store two nibbles in a byte and that's not what the text is. I have a character set that uses 0-9, . and ; I need only these plus I'll add an end of data value in case I have a byte whose lhs is a real value but whose rhs is null.

Ideally, the compressed and uncompressed targets are both byte arrays.

Thanks.