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The term colbin refers to a special type of reference to a data location. It is always specified as $colBIN.

When the BIN suffix appears on the name of a col, the data location designated is treated as containing an integer number. The codes which represent these values are added together:

V 2048

X 1024

0  512

1  256

2  128

3  64

4  32

5  16

6  8

7  4

8  2

9  1

The lowest value it can take is thus zero (if the location is blank), and the highest 4095, if all codes are present.

When a data location is referenced as a colbin, it is treated not as a 12 response mvar but as a 4095-bit svar, and the appropriate syntax should therefore be used.

Any data location may be referenced either as a col or as a colbin; references in both forms to the same location are allowed in a CL script.

Examples of colbins:

$5bin

$136bin