I have a homework assignment where I need to do three-way conversion between decimal, binary and hexadecimal. The function I need help with is converting a decimal into a hexadecimal. I have nearly no understanding of hexadecimal, nonetheless how to convert a decimal into hex. I need a function that takes in an int dec
and returns a String hex
. Unfortunately I don't have any draft of this function, I'm completely lost. All I have is this.
public static String decToHex(int dec)
{
String hex = "";
return hex;
}
Also I can't use those premade functions like Integer.toHexString() or anything, I need to actually make the algorithm or I wouldn't have learned anything.
One possible solution:
import java.lang.StringBuilder;
class Test {
private static final int sizeOfIntInHalfBytes = 8;
private static final int numberOfBitsInAHalfByte = 4;
private static final int halfByte = 0x0F;
private static final char[] hexDigits = {
'0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7',
'8', '9', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F'
};
public static String decToHex(int dec) {
StringBuilder hexBuilder = new StringBuilder(sizeOfIntInHalfBytes);
hexBuilder.setLength(sizeOfIntInHalfBytes);
for (int i = sizeOfIntInHalfBytes - 1; i >= 0; --i)
{
int j = dec & halfByte;
hexBuilder.setCharAt(i, hexDigits[j]);
dec >>= numberOfBitsInAHalfByte;
}
return hexBuilder.toString();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
int dec = 305445566;
String hex = decToHex(dec);
System.out.println(hex);
}
}
Output:
1234BABE
Anyway, there is a library method for this:
String hex = Integer.toHexString(dec);