note 86673 modified in function.dechex by thiago

From: Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:35:52 +0000
Subject: note 86673 modified in function.dechex by thiago
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I was confused by dechex's size limitation. Here is my solution to the problem. It supports much bigger values, as well as signs. <?php function dec_to_hex($dec) { $sign = ""; // suppress errors if( $dec < 0){ $sign = "-"; $dec = abs($dec); } $hex = Array( 0 => 0, 1 => 1, 2 => 2, 3 => 3, 4 => 4, 5 => 5, 6 => 6, 7 => 7, 8 => 8, 9 => 9, 10 => 'a', 11 => 'b', 12 => 'c', 13 => 'd', 14 => 'e', 15 => 'f' ); do { $h = $hex[($dec%16)] . $h; $dec /= 16; } while( $dec >= 1 ); return $sign . $h; } ?> --was-- I was confused by dechex's size limitation. Here is my solution to the problem. It supports much bigger values, as well as signs. function dec_to_hex($dec) { $sign = ""; // suppress errors if( $dec < 0){ $sign = "-"; $dec = abs($dec); } $hex = Array( 0 => 0, 1 => 1, 2 => 2, 3 => 3, 4 => 4, 5 => 5, 6 => 6, 7 => 7, 8 => 8, 9 => 9, 10 => 'a', 11 => 'b', 12 => 'c', 13 => 'd', 14 => 'e', 15 => 'f' ); do { $h = $hex[($dec%16)] . $h; $dec /= 16; } while( $dec >= 1 ); return $sign . $h; } http://php.net/manual/en/function.dechex.php

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