#ifndef ASC2BIN_H

#define ASC2BIN_H
/*!  
** 
** Copyright (c) 2007 by John W. Ratcliff mailto:jratcliff@infiniplex.net
**
** Portions of this source has been released with the PhysXViewer application, as well as 
** Rocket, CreateDynamics, ODF, and as a number of sample code snippets.
**
** If you find this code useful or you are feeling particularily generous I would
** ask that you please go to http://www.amillionpixels.us and make a donation
** to Troy DeMolay.
**
** DeMolay is a youth group for young men between the ages of 12 and 21.  
** It teaches strong moral principles, as well as leadership skills and 
** public speaking.  The donations page uses the 'pay for pixels' paradigm
** where, in this case, a pixel is only a single penny.  Donations can be
** made for as small as $4 or as high as a $100 block.  Each person who donates
** will get a link to their own site as well as acknowledgement on the
** donations blog located here http://www.amillionpixels.blogspot.com/
**
** If you wish to contact me you can use the following methods:
**
** Skype Phone: 636-486-4040 (let it ring a long time while it goes through switches)
** Skype ID: jratcliff63367
** Yahoo: jratcliff63367
** AOL: jratcliff1961
** email: jratcliff@infiniplex.net
**
**
** The MIT license:
**
** Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy 
** of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal 
** in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights 
** to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell 
** copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished 
** to do so, subject to the following conditions:
**
** The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all 
** copies or substantial portions of the Software.

** THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 
** IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 
** FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 
** AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, 
** WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN 
** CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

*/

// types:
//
//          f   : 4 byte float
//          d   : 4 byte integer
//          c   : 1 byte character
//          b   : 1 byte integer
//          h   : 2 byte integer
//          p   : 4 byte const char *
//          x1  : 1 byte hex
//          x2  : 2 byte hex
//          x4  : 4 byte hex (etc)
// example usage:
//
//    Asc2Bin("1 2 3 4 5 6",1,"fffff",0);

void * Asc2Bin(const char *source,const int count,const char *ctype,void *dest=0);


#endif