MATLAB Function Reference

hex2dec

Hexadecimal to decimal number conversion

Syntax

d = hex2dec('hex_value')

Description

d = hex2dec('hex_value') converts hex_value to its floating-point integer representation. The argument hex_value is a hexadecimal integer stored in a MATLAB string. The value of hex_value must be smaller than hexadecimal 10,000,000,000,000.

If hex_value is a character array, each row is interpreted as a hexadecimal string.

Examples

hex2dec('3ff')

ans =

        1023

For a character array S

S =
0FF
2DE
123
hex2dec(S)

ans =

     255
     734
     291

See Also

dec2hex, format, hex2num, sprintf

hess

hex2num