Thread: hex to binary

^Thanks for that.

But can you see I will have the problem where the binary string will be overloaded after a few inputs?
The binary doesn't have to be a character string btw. I want to later separate the bits because these binary digits are machine codes for assembly instructions...

Originally Posted by nasser

^Thanks for that.

But can you see I will have the problem where the binary string will be overloaded after a few inputs?
The binary doesn't have to be a character string btw. I want to later separate the bits because these binary digits are machine codes for assembly instructions...

Well... you could always do this... char *Binary = malloc(4294967280 * sizeof(char));... in which case overrunning the binary buffer would be the least of our worries...

Why won't it be overloaded? I actually tried it and it does.
You defined binary as binary[128], each hex number takes 32 bits, so after a few inputs it will fill up the array.

And you can't figure out to clear the buffer before you load the next value?

Text-Binary is useless for anything but display. Your computer won't have the first clue what to do with it... Now if you were reading the hexcode and converting it to machine-binary, using fscanf("%x"... you might actually stand a chance of turning text-hex into machine code...

EDIT: Get out your dictionary and look up "Example"....