Octal is a base 8 numbering system, in which each digit of an octal number has 8 possible values, 0-7. Octal is useful in computers when representing values that fill three bit multiples. For example, Unix file permissions use octal numbering, because the actual binary data that represents file permissions are twelve bits long.
Three digts of octal are sufficient to represent one ASCII character. Use the table below to convert groups of three digits to their corresponding ASCII values, by finding their decimal number and converting that to octal.
ASCII Character | Hexadecimal | Binary | Decimal |
---|---|---|---|
NUL | 00 | 00000000 | 0 |
SOH | 01 | 00000001 | 1 |
STX | 02 | 00000010 | 2 |
ETX | 03 | 00000011 | 3 |
EOT | 04 | 00000100 | 4 |
ENQ | 05 | 00000101 | 5 |
ACK | 06 | 00000110 | 6 |
BEL | 07 | 00000111 | 7 |
BS | 08 | 00001000 | 8 |
HT | 09 | 00001001 | 9 |
LF | 0A | 00001010 | 10 |
VT | 0B | 00001011 | 11 |
FF | 0C | 00001100 | 12 |
CR | 0D | 00001101 | 13 |
SO | 0E | 00001110 | 14 |
SI | 0F | 00001111 | 15 |
DLE | 10 | 00010000 | 16 |
DC1 | 11 | 00010001 | 17 |
DC2 | 12 | 00010010 | 18 |
DC3 | 13 | 00010011 | 19 |
DC4 | 14 | 00010100 | 20 |
NAK | 15 | 00010101 | 21 |
SYN | 16 | 00010110 | 22 |
ETB | 17 | 00010111 | 23 |
CAN | 18 | 00011000 | 24 |
EM | 19 | 00011001 | 25 |
SUB | 1A | 00011010 | 26 |
ESC | 1B | 00011011 | 27 |
FS | 1C | 00011100 | 28 |
GS | 1D | 00011101 | 29 |
RS | 1E | 00011110 | 30 |
US | 1F | 00011111 | 31 |
Space | 20 | 00100000 | 32 |
! | 21 | 00100001 | 33 |
" | 22 | 00100010 | 34 |
# | 23 | 00100011 | 35 |
$ | 24 | 00100100 | 36 |
% | 25 | 00100101 | 37 |
& | 26 | 00100110 | 38 |
' | 27 | 00100111 | 39 |
( | 28 | 00101000 | 40 |
) | 29 | 00101001 | 41 |
* | 2A | 00101010 | 42 |
+ | 2B | 00101011 | 43 |
, | 2C | 00101100 | 44 |
- | 2D | 00101101 | 45 |
. | 2E | 00101110 | 46 |
/ | 2F | 00101111 | 47 |
0 | 30 | 00110000 | 48 |
1 | 31 | 00110001 | 49 |
2 | 32 | 00110010 | 50 |
3 | 33 | 00110011 | 51 |
4 | 34 | 00110100 | 52 |
5 | 35 | 00110101 | 53 |
6 | 36 | 00110110 | 54 |
7 | 37 | 00110111 | 55 |
8 | 38 | 00111000 | 56 |
9 | 39 | 00111001 | 57 |
: | 3A | 00111010 | 58 |
; | 3B | 00111011 | 59 |
< | 3C | 00111100 | 60 |
= | 3D | 00111101 | 61 |
> | 3E | 00111110 | 62 |
? | 3F | 00111111 | 63 |
@ | 40 | 01000000 | 64 |
A | 41 | 01000001 | 65 |
B | 42 | 01000010 | 66 |
C | 43 | 01000011 | 67 |
D | 44 | 01000100 | 68 |
E | 45 | 01000101 | 69 |
F | 46 | 01000110 | 70 |
G | 47 | 01000111 | 71 |
H | 48 | 01001000 | 72 |
I | 49 | 01001001 | 73 |
J | 4A | 01001010 | 74 |
K | 4B | 01001011 | 75 |
L | 4C | 01001100 | 76 |
M | 4D | 01001101 | 77 |
N | 4E | 01001110 | 78 |
O | 4F | 01001111 | 79 |
P | 50 | 01010000 | 80 |
Q | 51 | 01010001 | 81 |
R | 52 | 01010010 | 82 |
S | 53 | 01010011 | 83 |
T | 54 | 01010100 | 84 |
U | 55 | 01010101 | 85 |
V | 56 | 01010110 | 86 |
W | 57 | 01010111 | 87 |
X | 58 | 01011000 | 88 |
Y | 59 | 01011001 | 89 |
Z | 5A | 01011010 | 90 |
[ | 5B | 01011011 | 91 |
\ | 5C | 01011100 | 92 |
] | 5D | 01011101 | 93 |
^ | 5E | 01011110 | 94 |
_ | 5F | 01011111 | 95 |
` | 60 | 01100000 | 96 |
a | 61 | 01100001 | 97 |
b | 62 | 01100010 | 98 |
c | 63 | 01100011 | 99 |
d | 64 | 01100100 | 100 |
e | 65 | 01100101 | 101 |
f | 66 | 01100110 | 102 |
g | 67 | 01100111 | 103 |
h | 68 | 01101000 | 104 |
i | 69 | 01101001 | 105 |
j | 6A | 01101010 | 106 |
k | 6B | 01101011 | 107 |
l | 6C | 01101100 | 108 |
m | 6D | 01101101 | 109 |
n | 6E | 01101110 | 110 |
o | 6F | 01101111 | 111 |
p | 70 | 01110000 | 112 |
q | 71 | 01110001 | 113 |
r | 72 | 01110010 | 114 |
s | 73 | 01110011 | 115 |
t | 74 | 01110100 | 116 |
u | 75 | 01110101 | 117 |
v | 76 | 01110110 | 118 |
w | 77 | 01110111 | 119 |
x | 78 | 01111000 | 120 |
y | 79 | 01111001 | 121 |
z | 7A | 01111010 | 122 |
{ | 7B | 01111011 | 123 |
| | 7C | 01111100 | 124 |
} | 7D | 01111101 | 125 |
~ | 7E | 01111110 | 126 |
DEL | 7F | 01111111 | 127 |