Hexidecimal to decimal conversion

[PaulJ]

Hi, Has anyone out there have a routine that converts a Hexidecmal String to a DWORD? Paul Jahans

[Rick York]

Try stroul. You can specify a base parameter of 16 or if the strings will have "0x" at the beginning then you can use a base of 0 and the function will sort it out. If you prefer, it is a fairly simple matter to write your own.

[Niklas L]

unsigned long strtoul( const char *nptr, char **endptr, int base

[Ravi Bhavnani]

Here's one way to do it. You should add error checking.

DWORD hexStringToDword
(char* szHexString)
{
DWORD dwValue = 0;
sscanf (szHexString, "%X", &dwValue);
return (dwValue);
}

/ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com