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