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C - Convert long int to signed hex string

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I have a long int variable that I need to convert to a signed 24bit hexadecimal string without the "0x" at the start. The string must be 6 characters followed by a string terminator '\0', so leading zeros need to be added.

Examples: [-1 -> FFFFFF] --- [1 -> 000001] --- [71 -> 000047]

Answer This seems to do the trick:

long int number = 37;
char string[7];

snprintf (string, 7, "%lX", number);
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Cheetah Avatar asked Apr 29 '10 20:04

Cheetah


1 Answers

Because you only want six digits, you are probably going to have to do some masking to make sure that the number is as you require. Something like this:

sprintf(buffer, "%06lx", (unsigned long)val & 0xFFFFFFUL);

Be aware that you are mapping all long integers into a small range of representations. You may want to check the number is in a specific range before printing it (E.g. -2^23 < x < 2^23 - 1)

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CB Bailey Avatar answered Oct 06 '22 09:10

CB Bailey