Re: Hex to string and vice versa

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thinking about my previous post, there is probably a way to call some C
function to convert a number from hex digits to decimal for you.

Then my post just becomes an excercise.

Regards,

Jim Langston

janusz.prusaczyk@big.pl wrote:

> Sorry if I ask easy questions, I am only starting to learn:
>
> I want to read a string from file, the string can contain only these
> characters: "0123456789ABCDEF". I want to treat this string as hex number,
> add to it another hex number and write this number as string to file (I want
> to read this later in CL program as string value).
>
> Can anybody post some example code as how to convert such string to hex, add
> two hex values and write string to file representing the result?
>
> Thank you for your patience,
>
> David

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