Conversion from decimal to hex issue.

[kcmihrguy]

I have an issue, see below, I am working up a spreadsheet to convert decimals to hex and hex to decimal

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A	B	C
DECIMAL	8 DIGITS	6 DIGITS

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256691416400144947 99000074 23633 <tbody> </tbody>

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Formula in B2 =DEC2HEX(LEFT(A2,10)*1) Formula in C2=DEC2HEX(RIGHT(A2,8)*1) Note: 2nd row is column labels-row1 3rd row is data-row2 The issue is in C2, if the answer has a zero at the beginning it drops the zero and I need that(using this particular number in A2)- this will change as serial numbers change so the leading zero isn't always an issue, this will be used for conversion of serial numbers to and from decimal to hex and I need to split into 2 numbers to get what I want. How can I get the leading zero back? Can I?

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[FormR]

Like this maybe:

Excel Workbook
	A	B	C
2	256691416400144000	99000074	023280
Sheet1

 

[par60056]

I don't think that will work. Dec2Hex will already be a string.

Try this:
=Right("000000" & DEC2HEX(Right(A2,8)*1),6)

 

[Scott Huish]

There is a 2nd parameter available for DEC2HEX that allows you to specify the number of digits.

=DEC2HEX(Right(A2,8),6)

It will also work without coercing it to a number.

 

[par60056]

There is a 2nd parameter available for DEC2HEX that allows you to specify the number of digits.

=DEC2HEX(Right(A2,8),6)

It will also work without coercing it to a number.

Thanks Scott. Silly me I assumed they were WRITING the converter. I didn't realize it was a built in function or I'd have seen the second parameter.

 

[kcmihrguy]

SOLVED Re: Conversion from decimal to hex issue.

Thanks Scott. Silly me I assumed they were WRITING the converter. I didn't realize it was a built in function or I'd have seen the second parameter.

Thanks Scott, I also didn't realize that there was a second parameter available.