negative hexadecimal conversion to integer, without FFFFFF prefix .

Apr 26 2013 | 3:56 pm
hi all , i would lke to do this , how would you convert :
FFFFFF27 , to 2 and 7 , or , another example : FFFFFF2E , to 2 and E
i still can't get the way to remove those "F" , and separate the 2 numbers (or letters) following , in a list or else . it seems so easy ...
i 'll try to find out before anybody answers , and will triumph .
i' m also ok to loose the challenge .

• Apr 26 2013 | 4:05 pm
here's a patch that shows this
• Apr 26 2013 | 4:17 pm
Maybe this:
• Apr 26 2013 | 5:15 pm
hi Patrick , thanks for the patch , that bitwise intersection object obviously seems to be the key , i must admit i don't understand yet ... that's very cool ! but i'm not sure we're resolving my problem completely , maybe it's done 99% , ... i'll try to explain more .
the hex number we're working on will always be in the range (-255 --> 0) , sorry the range (FFFFFF01 --> 0) ( i know numbers are numbers are numbers , but i think it's important ) for the example of the value "FFFFFF2E" (-210) , i have to remove these FFFFFF , then we have 2E , or 2 and E . i have to perform another conversion , which is (weird ?) : 2 has to be considered as an ASCII character , and converted to a decimal ----> 50 E has to be considered as an ASCII character , and converted to a decimal ----> 69
!!!!! and we've got it !!!!! 50 69
my problem is that i can't get the letter "E" outputted, from a number box , even if it's displaying hex . it will only output decimal .
but maybe i have (once again) let some evidence come to me , without shaking hands .
i don't think we can fill a message box with a letter , with this (thank you again) patch , can we ?
Matthieu
• Apr 26 2013 | 5:41 pm
• Apr 26 2013 | 7:43 pm
oooooo it seems to work perfectly , in all the cases ,
thank you very much Patrick trop cool !
you surely saved me a looot of time , i now have to understand this "&" object .
that's a good lesson to learn for me , let's go !
wish you the best , have nice week-end
Matthieu
• Apr 28 2013 | 9:12 pm
did you know about the [atoi] object ? you can also use regular expressions to strip the FFFFFF out of your message and use atoi to process the two remaining caracters...
• Apr 29 2013 | 7:49 pm
@(karrrlo): as joumik pointed out, a number is a number is a number, but it is not a symbol. What he seems to manipulate are negative numbers, represented in hexadecimal. So you first need to convert the number in an hex symbol. I think this could be done with sprintf but I'm too far away from Max to be able to test this (I checked your patch using http://www.ahmetkizilay.com/ptc/ :-) You're right about atoi, of course. I just wanted to show joumik it was quite an obvious conversion to do without any specialized object.
• May 17 2013 | 10:23 pm
hi , thanks to both of you .
yes , atoi was very sexy !
everything 's working good now ,
thanks again
Matthieu
PS:   http://www.ahmetkizilay.com/ptc/   is very cool !
• May 19 2013 | 8:56 pm
@Patrick  Delges , i was't exactly sure what Joumik needed as i was reading through the posts in diagonals , and it was a quick response i gave with the little time i had that day + your response was far more detailed  :)
and thanks for the  http://www.ahmetkizilay.com/ptc/ link, this is just wonderful !!!
@joumik glad everything is working out for you