title: Convert from String to Unsigned Long and back
body: <p>How do you convert a string to an unsigned long so that the unsigned long represents the characters in the string as 8bit numbers?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: What I want to do is turn a string of 4 characters into a long of the same four characters in ASCII code format.</p>