Hex - Decimal converter
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 4:16 pm
You never know when you might need one of these.
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Hex - Decimal converter
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Re: Hex - Decimal converter
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 4:36 pm
Any one for a spot of programming?
Re: Hex - Decimal converter
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 5:55 pm
I don't know who the Unicode Consortium think they are serving by being difficult and
presenting everything in Hexadecimal (and on the left is all the work I had to do to hack
their document with Decimal numbers).
presenting everything in Hexadecimal (and on the left is all the work I had to do to hack
their document with Decimal numbers).
Re: Hex - Decimal converter
Posted: Sun May 01, 2016 11:55 am
Just like Tarzan; now swings both ways:
Re: Hex - Decimal converter
Posted: Sun May 01, 2016 4:50 pm
Aha; now I realised I was missing something.
Re: Hex - Decimal converter
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2022 11:46 am
Hi Richmond,
thanks a lot for the inspiration. I was looking for a kind of function to do that in LC and developed a shorter one, inspired by your solution:
Cheers
Torsten
thanks a lot for the inspiration. I was looking for a kind of function to do that in LC and developed a shorter one, inspired by your solution:
Cheers
Torsten
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function Hex2Int tHex
-- INPUT: hex value
-- OUTPUT: integer
put the length of tHex into tLength
put -1 into tPower
repeat with i = tLength down to 1
add 1 to tPower
put char i of tHex into tChar
if tChar = "A" then put 10 into tChar
if tChar = "B" then put 11 into tChar
if tChar = "C" then put 12 into tChar
if tChar = "D" then put 13 into tChar
if tChar = "E" then put 14 into tChar
if tChar = "F" then put 15 into tChar
add tChar * (16^tPower) to tInt
end repeat
return tInt
end Hex2Int
Re: Hex - Decimal converter
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2022 11:53 am
That's super to know. 
Re: Hex - Decimal converter
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2022 12:47 pm
This may have already come up, but why write a base conversion routine when one is alreayd built into Livecode?
See baseConvert(number, originalBase, destinationBase) in the Dictionary
For base hex to decimal converstion:
put baseConvert(myHexNumberVariable,16,10) into myDecNumberVariable
See baseConvert(number, originalBase, destinationBase) in the Dictionary
For base hex to decimal converstion:
put baseConvert(myHexNumberVariable,16,10) into myDecNumberVariable
Re: Hex - Decimal converter
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2022 2:38 pm
I did it for fun.