Just Sharing This Decimal to Hex & VV conversions

[jeallen01]

Evening

I'm sure someone posted something like this somewhere at sometime, but here goes:

For "various reasons" I want to convert strings of hexadecimal numbers like (completely random with no significance at all ) "99 08 86 27 E4 66" to decimal, or VV, I could use my hand-calculator, or an online converter programme to do that - one group at a time, and that's very laborious, time-consuming and prone to errors (especially by me!).

Therefore I looked for a online programme that will convert the complete string in one shot - and, after quite a number of false leads, I found this one which appears to do just what I would need for various "useful numbers"

Any thoughts, or alternatives?

 

[Lazarus]

Beads.

Lots of them, in a variety of pretty colours.

 

[jeallen01]

Beads.

Lots of them, in a variety of pretty colours.

Won't work well - I'm partially colour-blind, and I have difficulty counting in "large numbers"

 

[mickwig]

You could just use the Windoes calculator. In programming view you can just convert hex into dez or bin.

 

[Archive-8]

This might help

h**p://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=HextoDecConversion

 

[jeallen01]

You could just use the Windoes calculator. In programming view you can just convert hex into dez or bin.

Thanks - hadn't thought of that but now had a look. However, it looks like you have to manually enter the number, digit by digit, to be converted before it is converted, whereas on the site to which I pointed you just copy and paste it from "wherever" and hit the Decode button, and then copy the result back to "wherever".

 

[jeallen01]

h**p://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=HextoDecConversion

Since that also refers to using the Windoze Calculator then it seems to have the same issues as I mentioned in response to mickwig's post.

 

[Terryl]

Won't work well - I'm partially colour-blind, and I have difficulty counting in "large numbers"

Instead of colored beads use black and white marbles like I do, but don't too big a file as you can loose your marbles like I did when I tried to decode about 50,000 lines of hex.

 

[jeallen01]

Instead of colored beads use black and white marbles like I do, but don't too big a file as you can loose your marbles like I did when I tried to decode about 50,000 lines of hex.

Think I lost mine decades ago, which probably explains some of my inane posts here (and this may explain the current ones )

 

[Channel Hopper]

Evening

I'm sure someone posted something like this somewhere at sometime, but here goes:

For "various reasons" I want to convert strings of hexadecimal numbers like (completely random with no significance at all ) "99 08 86 27 E4 66" to decimal, or VV, I could use my hand-calculator, or an online converter programme to do that - one group at a time, and that's very laborious, time-consuming and prone to errors (especially by me!).

Therefore I looked for a online programme that will convert the complete string in one shot - and, after quite a number of false leads, I found this one which appears to do just what I would need for various "useful numbers"

Any thoughts, or alternatives?

Have you tried one of those artificial intelligence machines, Siri , Alexa or Cortana to verify if they can read out an answer ?

 

[jeallen01]

Have you tried one of those artificial intelligence machines, Siri , Alexa or Cortana to verify if they can read out an answer ?

Sounds like I would still have to "write the answer down" - instead of just copying it to "wherever". And, FWIW, don't want to get "involved" with "intelligent bots" until/unless I REALLY have to, which is not, I hope, YET!

 

[Channel Hopper]

Ah, I didn't understand this was to be absolutely autonomous.

Excel could be your friend then.
Dec2hex function and vice versa

 

[jeallen01]

Ah, I didn't understand this was to be absolutely autonomous.
Excel could be your friend then.
Dec2hex function and vice versa

As is my "wont" I hadn't thought of that either, but then again I'm not an EXCEL "expert" (just the very basic stuff - enough to keep a list of all my sources of income in order to do my tax returns - although I was a little more proficient a few years ago).

So, can you help with where I should start (in EXCEL 2010)?

OTOH it is probably something like shown here: DEC2HEX function - Office Support (and, presumably, there is another function to perform the reverse)

 

[mickwig]

For a complete set of numbers try MS Excel: HEXINDEZ, HEXINBIN or DEZINHEX, DEZINBIN. You can jus copy a row of numbers and then copy and paiste the formula. Althoung in the english version the formula might be slightly different.

 

[Channel Hopper]

As is my "wont" I hadn't thought of that either, but then again I'm not an EXCEL "expert" (just the very basic stuff - enough to keep a list of all my sources of income in order to do my tax returns - although I was a little more proficient a few years ago).

So, can you help with where I should start (in EXCEL 2010)?

You think I'm an Excel expert ?

 

[jeallen01]

You think I'm an Excel expert ?

Well, you know what they say about flattery!

 

[archive10]

Evening

I'm sure someone posted something like this somewhere at sometime, but here goes:

For "various reasons" I want to convert strings of hexadecimal numbers like (completely random with no significance at all ) "99 08 86 27 E4 66" to decimal, or VV, I could use my hand-calculator, or an online converter programme to do that - one group at a time, and that's very laborious, time-consuming and prone to errors (especially by me!).

Therefore I looked for a online programme that will convert the complete string in one shot - and, after quite a number of false leads, I found this one which appears to do just what I would need for various "useful numbers"

Any thoughts, or alternatives?

Converting hexadeciaml to decimal (and the other way around) is programmatically dead easy.
It's just a matter of packaging this in a tool.

So let me get this straight: You need to copy a string consisting of two-digit hexadecimal values separated by white-space into an equivalent string of decimal values separated by white-space. The input string must be pasted from somewhere else (ahem), and the output needs to be copied for pasting into something else (ahem).
I assume all this happens in Windows 7,8, or 10.
Errors in the hexadecimal input string will simply yield 0 values in the decimal string.

If that is what you need, I can slap something together wihtin a day or two that does the above, once I've swapped a working PSU into my old development PC...

 

[jeallen01]

@st1

If that is what you need, I can slap something together wihtin a day or two that does the above, once I've swapped a working PSU into my old development PC...

Many thanks for the offer (and it would be run on a W7 or W10 machine) - could be useful, but not sure if it is worth your effort because the site I pointed to in Post #3 actually already appears to do that successfully.