JavaScript dechex

Returns a string containing a hexadecimal representation of the given number

function dechex (number) {
    // Returns a string containing a hexadecimal representation of the given number  
    // 
    // version: 909.322
    // discuss at: http://phpjs.org/functions/dechex    // +   original by: Philippe Baumann
    // +   bugfixed by: Onno Marsman
    // +   improved by: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/57803/how-to-convert-decimal-to-hex-in-javascript
    // +   input by: pilus
    // *     example 1: dechex(10);    // *     returns 1: 'a'
    // *     example 2: dechex(47);
    // *     returns 2: '2f'
    // *     example 3: dechex(-1415723993);
    // *     returns 3: 'ab9dc427'    if (number < 0) {
        number = 0xFFFFFFFF + number + 1;
    }
    return parseInt(number, 10).toString(16);
}

external links: original PHP docs | raw js source

Examples

» Example 1

Running

1	dechex(10);

Should return

'a'

» Example 2

Running

1	dechex(47);

Should return

'2f'

Dependencies

No dependencies, you can use this function standalone.

Open syntax issues

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Eventually we want all code to pass or at least take into consideration most fixes suggested by JsLint, following this JsLint configuration we’ve decided on.

Authors

Thanks to the following developers, you get to have dechex goodness in JavaScript.

Philippe Baumann ( original )
Onno Marsman ( bugfixed )
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/57803/how-to-convert-decimal-to-hex-in-javascript ( improved )
pilus ( input )

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Kevin van Zonneveld
16 Aug '09

@ Lokde: Come again?

Lokde
11 Aug '09

rediffmail javascript:;; error

Brett Zamir
5 Aug '09

@pilus: I finally got around to updating the other related functions--to my knowledge it seems only the dec* functions needed changing, as these were the ones relying on toString() with a numeric argument (and which could have negative values (i.e., unlike bin2hex))...

Brett Zamir
18 Jun '09

Ok, I made the credit fix, but I'll hold off on the other functions for now (unless you want to indicate which ones need it, etc.)

pilus
11 Jun '09

actually i would like people at stackoverflow to be credited, but when i want to make a comment there, they required me to register ... and I don't want to register ....

just so people still credit the original link, here they are :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/57803/how-to-convert-decimal-to-hex-in-javascript

@Brett : thx for the credit ... :D, but the other numeric conversion function should do the same, I think, I've tried the decbin in php, it returns non negative number, but I have not tried the one in php.js ... :D

Brett Zamir
10 Jun '09

Great, thanks, Pilus! I've fixed it in SVN and credited you for it. The only difference was I kept the 2nd argument in parseInt even though its redundant, since jslint complains about it...

pilus
10 Jun '09

hohoho .... using information from this link : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/57803/how-to-convert-decimal-to-hex-in-javascript, i managed to modify the function to satisfy my needs, I'm currently porting a AES-PHP algorithm to JS, and I've been pondering my code, because there's some infinite loop there somewhere, it's because the dechex-js returned a negative hex for a negative input, whereas PHP version does not.

So, here you, hopefully it could be usefull for anyone else ... :P

function dechex(number) {
        if (number < 0) {
           return (0xFFFFFFFF+number+1).toString(16);
        }
    return parseInt(number).toString(16);}

pilus
10 Jun '09

what about this one here :

dechex(-1415723993)

it returns "-54623bd9", but when tried in php and in MSWIN calc, returns AB9DC427 and FFFFFFFFAB9DC427 consecutively. anybody know what's wrong ? cause i don't ... >.<

Kevin van Zonneveld
6 Oct '08

@ Philippe Baumann & Onno Marsman: Excellent work gentlemen. As far as the loosely typed discussion, I would have to side with Onno there.
PS, we almost have the entire unported list of the math section covered!

Onno Marsman
5 Oct '08

It is well known that PHP is a weakly typed language. Of course this is not mentioned at every functions page in the documentation.
And because javascript is also weakly typed I think it would be obvious to make this library also weakly typed. And with that I mean: as close to the behavior of PHP as possible, which, of course, is the main goal of this library.

Philippe Baumann
4 Oct '08

And while we're already at it:

function base_convert(number, frombase, tobase)
{
        return parseInt(number, frombase).toString(tobase);
}

Philippe Baumann
4 Oct '08

Nevermind. It seems you were right and the PHP functions also accept string-type arguments. However the manual doesn't state it anywhere, so I assume it's not specially encouraged.

Also, I mistyped 'specification' in my previous comment (shame on me).

Philippe Baumann
4 Oct '08

Well, the specificain is
[CODE="php"]
string dechex ( int number)
[/CODE]
so it really expects an integer and only returns a string.

Onno Marsman
4 Oct '08

dechex('16') does not work correctly. A fix:

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2
3

function dechex(number) {    
    return parseInt(number).toString(16);
}

Philippe Baumann
3 Oct '08

This also applies the other way round:

function octdec(oct_string)
{
        oct_string = (oct_string+'').replace(/[^0-7]/gi, '');
        return parseInt(oct_string, 8);
} 
function bindec(binary_string)
{
        binary_string = (binary_string+'').replace(/[^01]/gi, '');
        return parseInt(binary_string, 2);}

Note that the PHP manual pages for octdec() and bindec() do not mention the filtering, however it does actually take place:

[CODE="php"]
<?php
echo octdec('a180'); // 'a180' -> '10' -> 8
echo "<br />";
echo bindec('c120'); // 'c120' -> '10' -> 2
?>
[/CODE]

Kevin van Zonneveld
3 Oct '08

@ Enrique GonzÃ¡lez: Yes it could! Added!

Enrique GonzÃ¡lez
3 Oct '08

The same code could be used for decoct and decbin functions:

function decoct(number){
  return number.toString(8);
  }
  
function decbin(number){  return number.toString(2);
  }

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