How to convert a gi-normous integer (in string format) to hex format? (C#)
Oh, that's easy:
var s = "843370923007003347112437570992242323";
var result = new List<byte>();
result.Add( 0 );
foreach ( char c in s )
{
int val = (int)( c - '0' );
for ( int i = 0 ; i < result.Count ; i++ )
{
int digit = result[i] * 10 + val;
result[i] = (byte)( digit & 0x0F );
val = digit >> 4;
}
if ( val != 0 )
result.Add( (byte)val );
}
var hex = "";
foreach ( byte b in result )
hex = "0123456789ABCDEF"[ b ] + hex;
Use a BigInteger to store the integer, and than use the .ToString("X") on that object.
Example:
var number = BigInteger.Parse("843370923007003347112437570992242323");
string hexValue = number.ToString("X");
This is however limited to .NET 4 and later. But Jens A. pointed to a BigInteger class on codeproject that class contains a method called ToHexString so that would work for a < .NET 4 scenario.
As Jens said, take a look at the BigInt implementation on Code Project. Even if they don't have a function to convert to hex, you could easily write a function to do it yourself as long as this BigInt has a divide and modulo operation (I don't think it has a modulo function, so you would also need to write modulo yourself)
heh nice solutions for dec<->hex conversions here on stackoverflow so far ,... but i needed (gigantic int . gigantic fraction) with almost none precision lost so i modded all codes i found with my already done codes and here is some i can share (without big int/real lib usage)
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AnsiString str_hex2dec(const AnsiString &hex)
{
char c;
AnsiString dec="",s;
int i,j,l,ll,cy,val;
int i0,i1,i2,i3,sig;
sig=+1; l=hex.Length();
if (l) { c=hex[l]; if (c=='h') l--; if (c=='H') l--; }
i0=0; i1=l; i2=0; i3=l;
for (i=1;i<=l;i++) // scan for parts of number
{
char c=hex[i];
if (c=='-') sig=-sig;
if ((c=='.')||(c==',')) i1=i-1;
if ((c>='0')&&(c<='9')) { if (!i0) i0=i; if ((!i2)&&(i>i1)) i2=i; }
if ((c>='A')&&(c<='F')) { if (!i0) i0=i; if ((!i2)&&(i>i1)) i2=i; }
if ((c>='a')&&(c<='f')) { if (!i0) i0=i; if ((!i2)&&(i>i1)) i2=i; }
}
l=0; s=""; if (i0) for (i=i0;i<=i1;i++)
{
c=hex[i];
if ((c>='0')&&(c<='9')) c-='0';
else if ((c>='A')&&(c<='F')) c-='A'-10;
else if ((c>='a')&&(c<='f')) c-='A'-10;
for (cy=c,j=1;j<=l;j++)
{
val=(s[j]<<4)+cy;
s[j]=val%10;
cy =val/10;
}
while (cy>0)
{
l++;
s+=char(cy%10);
cy/=10;
}
}
if (s!="")
{
for (j=1;j<=l;j++) { c=s[j]; if (c<10) c+='0'; else c+='A'-10; s[j]=c; }
for (i=l,j=1;j<i;j++,i--) { c=s[i]; s[i]=s[j]; s[j]=c; }
dec+=s;
}
if (dec=="") dec="0";
if (sig<0) dec="-"+dec;
if (i2)
{
dec+='.';
s=hex.SubString(i2,i3-i2+1);
l=s.Length();
for (i=1;i<=l;i++)
{
c=s[i];
if ((c>='0')&&(c<='9')) c-='0';
else if ((c>='A')&&(c<='F')) c-='A'-10;
else if ((c>='a')&&(c<='f')) c-='A'-10;
s[i]=c;
}
ll=((l*1234)>>10); // num of decimals to compute
for (cy=0,i=1;i<=ll;i++)
{
for (cy=0,j=l;j>=1;j--)
{
val=s[j];
val*=10;
val+=cy;
s[j]=val&15;
cy=val>>4;
}
dec+=char(cy+'0');
for (;;)
{
if (!l) break;;
if (s[l]) break;
l--;
}
if (!l) break;;
}
}
return dec;
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AnsiString str_dec2hex(AnsiString dec)
{
AnsiString hex=""; BYTE a,b;
int i,j,i0,i1,i2,i3,l,sig;
sig=+1; l=dec.Length();
i0=0; i1=l; i2=0; i3=l;
for (i=1;i<=l;i++) // scan for parts of number
{
char c=dec[i];
if (c=='-') sig=-sig;
if ((c=='.')||(c==',')) i1=i-1;
if ((c>='0')&&(c<='9')) { if (!i0) i0=i; if ((!i2)&&(i>i1)) i2=i; }
}
if (i0) for (;i1>=i0;i1=j-1)// process integer part /16
{
for (a=0,j=i0,i=i0;i<=i1;i++)
{
a*=10; a+=dec[i]-'0';
if (a<16) { if (j>i0){ dec[j]='0'; j++; } continue; }
b=a>>4; a=a&15;
if (b>10) { dec[j]='1'; j++; b-=10; }
dec[j]=b+'0'; j++;
}
if ((!a)&&(hex=="")) continue;
if (a<10) a+='0'; else a+='A'-10;
hex=AnsiString(char(a))+hex;
}
if (hex=="") hex="0";
if ((i2)&&(i2<=i3)) // process fractional part *16
for (hex+=".",j=i3-i2+2;j;j--)
{
for (a=0,b=0,i=i3;i>=i2;i--)
{
a=dec[i]-'0';
b+=a<<4; dec[i]=(b%10)+'0'; b/=10;
}
if (b<10) b+='0'; else b+='A'-10;
hex+=char(b);
}
if (sig<0) hex="-"+hex; hex+="h";
return hex;
}
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P.S. if you need to cut off fractional digits (to format numbers) than you have to round by most significant digit of the cutted part.
- rounding abs up in dec mode if digit >='5'
- rounding abs up in hex mode if digit >='8'
if you wonder what means this line:
ll=((l*1234)>>10); // num of decimals to compute
than it compute the number of fractional digits that match input string precision (1.205 decimal fractional digits per hexadecimal fractional digit). This ratio i get by empirical measurement of accuracy up to 1280 bits per fractional part of number. for simplicity 1e-l can be stored with max error up to 1e-(l+1). This ratio is almost constant (except for low fractional digit values (<16 digits) so this formula can be used for any larger num of digits safely. In low input digit values is output wrong max by 1 (>8 digits) or max 2 (<=8 digits) digits