Thread: Please help hex bytes to word to dec...

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    Question Please help hex bytes to word to dec...

    Hi all,
    Really hoping someone is willing to help a newbie here )

    Right the problem i have is I've wrote a program that works out some bytes of hex.(checksum)

    I get these bytes in an array resulting from a loop
    so i have byte[0] byte[1] byte[2] byte[3]

    fine no problems but i need to 'join' all these bytes and display the result in decimal.

    eg
    byte[0]=170
    byte[1]=200
    byte[2]=50
    byte[3]=155
    printf("%X %X %X %X2", byte[1],byte[2],byte[3],byte[4]);

    i can display like AA C8 32 9B

    But i need the bytes in a word AAC8329B so i can change to decimal (2865246875)


    How to change hex bytes into a word ???

    Thanks for your time and sorry about such a basic question.... 'fraid i'm still scratching my head and learning

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    Code:
    {
      unsigned long word;
    
      word = byte[3];
      word |= byte[2] << 8;
      word |= byte[1] << 16;
      word |= byte[0] << 24;
    }
    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    
    int main(void)
    {
      unsigned char byte[4];
      unsigned long word;
    
      byte[0]=170;
      byte[1]=200;
      byte[2]=50;
      byte[3]=155;
    
      printf("%02X %02X %02X %02X\n", byte[0], byte[1], byte[2], byte[3]);
    
      word = byte[3];
      word |= byte[2] << 8;
      word |= byte[1] << 16;
      word |= byte[0] << 24;
    
      printf("%08X\n", word);
    
      return 0;
    }
    Code:
    itsme@itsme:~/C$ ./hw10
    AA C8 32 9B
    AAC8329B
    Last edited by itsme86; 11-10-2005 at 06:28 PM.
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    Your solution needs knowledge of bitwise operators and bitshifting. See the FAQ article on this.

    After you've read that, you simply merge the four bytes together. Since byte[0] seems to be your most significant byte, shift it the farthest left:
    Code:
    my_integer = (byte[0] << 24) | (byte[1] << 16) | (byte[2] << 8) | byte[3];
    printf("%u", my_integer);
    Be sure my_integer is defined as unsigned as well.

    A word is 2 bytes, btw. The printf() you posted has an odd trailing "2" and the indecies are wrong. Use byte[0], byte[1], byte[2], byte[3].
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    What can i say but a GREAT BIG THANK YOU
    Problem solved Lots of resect to you both

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    <hangs head in shame>
    Problem solved but this has opened a new problem...... 'life?? don't talk to me about life'



    I can now printf my hex value in decimal but how can i get the decimal value to always be 10 digits by adding a leading 0

    if my result hex value is 09D87C67

    printf("%d",result")

    I would get 165182567
    I REALLY need 10 digit displayed
    0165182567

    Thanks in advance for your time

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    Quote Originally Posted by stormystones
    I can now printf my hex value in decimal but how can i get the decimal value to always be 10 digits by adding a leading 0
    Try using a format string like "%010d" -- the leading zero in the format length specifier tells it to zero pad.
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    Easy when you know how


    Yet again i am amazed by such a quick/correct reply....problem 2 solved.... thankyou!

    For now all my problems are solved (I did say for now)

    <<< also can i add i am learning from this and REALLY thank you all>>>

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