Re: Converting Hex to binary
Re: Converting Hex to binary
- Subject: Re: Converting Hex to binary
- From: Barry Wainwright <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 23:31:35 +0000
On Jan 8, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Bernardo Hoehl wrote:
> Hi List!
>
> I know that I over work my scripts all the time.
>
> But this is common to newbyes. Ins't it?
>
> I have this script that aparently is functional:
>
> set theInput to "0309"
>
> set HexList to every character of ("0123456789ABCDEF")
>
> set binList to {"0000", "0001", "0010", "0011", "0100", "0101",
> "0110", "0111", "1000", "1001", "1010", "1011", "1100", "1101",
> "1110", "1111"}
> set ConvertedBin to ""
>
> repeat with i from 1 to the count of theInput
> repeat with ii from 1 to the count of HexList
> if item i of theInput is item ii of HexList then
> set ConvertedBin to ConvertedBin & item ii of binList
> end if
> end repeat
> end repeat
> return ConvertedBin --returns "0000001100001001"
>
>
> Please:
>
> Could you comment my script?
>
> I bet you would write it in a shorter way.
do shell script "echo \"2 i 16 o " & theInput & " p\" | dc"
(if you want the leading zeros you will have to add them...)
--
Barry
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