Mark,

Good start. I was thinking how to get 16^0 16^1 16^2 and 16^3 and you have 
hard coded it. If moving to a recursive process we may be able to handle 
variable length hex.

But it is a little mind bending.

Tones

On Thursday, 3 December 2020 at 08:41:11 UTC+11 Mark S. wrote:

> Here's my first attempt. It uses the 5.1.23 search-replace filter 
> operator. It requires the input to be padded to 4 bytes.
>
> Now that I've done it, I realize it could probably be written with a 
> recursive loop and be open ended (not needing to be padded).
>
> \define hex2dec2(hex)
> <$vars myhex=<<__hex__>> 
> myfilter="[split[]nth<place>search-replace:g[A],[10]search-replace:g[B],[11]search-replace:g[C],[12]search-replace:g[D],[13]search-replace:g[E],[14]search-replace:g[F],[15]]">
> <$list filter="1 2 3 4" variable="place"><<place>>
> <$list filter="[<myhex>subfilter<myfilter>] 
> [<place>compare:number:eq[1]then[4096]else[1]] [<myhex>subfilter<myfilter>] 
> [<place>compare:number:eq[2]then[256]else[1]] [<myhex>subfilter<myfilter>] 
> [<place>compare:number:eq[3]then[16]else[1]]+[product[]]"/>
> </$list>
> </$vars>
> \end
> \define hex2dec(hex)
> <$wikify text="<<hex2dec2 $hex$>>" name=dec>
> <$list filter="[enlist<dec>sum[]]"/>
> </$wikify>
> \end
> <<hex2dec EA0E>>
>
> On Wednesday, December 2, 2020 at 3:34:02 AM UTC-8 TW Tones wrote:
>
>> Mark,
>>
>> On this occasion I need to convert a 4 digit Hex to a decimal, so that I 
>> can use it in the range widget, because we cant generate a range of hex 
>> numbers.
>>
>>>
>>>>

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