Binary String to ASCII example

/** Binary String to ASCII characters conversion
    This is an untested example and may or may not work as advertised
    @author: Stephan Heijl
*/

public static String bin2text ( String binary ) {
    int pieceNo = (int)(binary.length/8) // Number of pieces

    // We'll use StringBuilder as we'll be doing a lot of concatenations
    StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder();

    for( int p = 0; p < pieceNo ; p++ ) {
        String piece = "";
        try {
            piece = binary.substring( p*8, (p+1)*8 ); // This should be an 8 character long piece of the binary string
        } catch( java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException e ) {
            // If this is reached the binary string is not a multiple of eight, so we compensate by padding the number with 0's.
            piece = binary.substring( p*8 )
            // This might need some work
            while ( piece.length < 8 ) {
                piece = "0" + piece
            }
        }

        // The following two steps could be done in a single line, but I will leave this for clarity

        // First convert the binary string to an int
        int binValue = Integer.parseInt(piece, 2);
        // now convert that to a char
        char binCharacter = (char)binValue;

        // And append this to the whole string.
        text.append( String.valueOf( binCharacter ) );
    }

    // Convert the StringBuilder instance into a String to write to a file
    return text.toString();
}