libbitconvert | A library that decodes bits from magnetic stripe cards

libbitconvert is a C library. libbitconvert has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

this is the readme for libbitconvert, a library that decodes bits from magnetic stripe cards into the alpha and bcd formats and provides a list of fields and values for cards described in the formats file. before checking out the project on windows, please turn on the "core.autocrlf" option in git (run "git config --global core.autocrlf true"). this will convert newlines in the checked out files into windows-style newlines so that editors like notepad can read them easily. to build the library and test driver, run "make" from the root directory. this should work on any posix system with a c compiler, such as ubuntu with build tools (run "sudo apt-get install build-essential"), mac os x with xcode, or windows with mingw and msys. libbitconvert requires libpcre, which is available in ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 by running "sudo apt-get install libpcre3 libpcre3-dev". mac os x users can acquire libpcre by installing the "pcre" port in macports. libpcre for windows is at in "complete package, except sources". to use the library,