How to convert numbers between hexadecimal and decimal

Question

How do you convert between hexadecimal numbers and decimal numbers in C#?

Answer 1

If you want maximum performance when doing conversion from hex to decimal number, you can use the approach with pre-populated table of hex-to-decimal values.

Here is the code that illustrates that idea. My performance tests showed that it can be 20%-40% faster than Convert.ToInt32(...):

class TableConvert
  {
      static sbyte[] unhex_table =
      { -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1
       ,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1
       ,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1
       , 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1
       ,-1,10,11,12,13,14,15,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1
       ,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1
       ,-1,10,11,12,13,14,15,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1
       ,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1
      };

      public static int Convert(string hexNumber)
      {
          int decValue = unhex_table[(byte)hexNumber[0]];
          for (int i = 1; i < hexNumber.Length; i++)
          {
              decValue *= 16;
              decValue += unhex_table[(byte)hexNumber[i]];
          }
          return decValue;
      }
  }

Answer 2

Hex to Decimal Conversion

Convert.ToInt32(number, 16);

Decimal to Hex Conversion

int.Parse(number, System.Globalization.NumberStyles.HexNumber)

For more details Check this article

Answer 3

class HexToDecimal
{
    static void Main()
    {
        while (true)
        {
            Console.Write("Enter digit number to convert: ");
            int n = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine()); // set hexadecimal digit number  
            Console.Write("Enter hexadecimal number: ");
            string str = Console.ReadLine();
            str.Reverse();

            char[] ch = str.ToCharArray();
            int[] intarray = new int[n];

            decimal decimalval = 0;

            for (int i = ch.Length - 1; i >= 0; i--)
            {
                if (ch[i] == '0')
                    intarray[i] = 0;
                if (ch[i] == '1')
                    intarray[i] = 1;
                if (ch[i] == '2')
                    intarray[i] = 2;
                if (ch[i] == '3')
                    intarray[i] = 3;
                if (ch[i] == '4')
                    intarray[i] = 4;
                if (ch[i] == '5')
                    intarray[i] = 5;
                if (ch[i] == '6')
                    intarray[i] = 6;
                if (ch[i] == '7')
                    intarray[i] = 7;
                if (ch[i] == '8')
                    intarray[i] = 8;
                if (ch[i] == '9')
                    intarray[i] = 9;
                if (ch[i] == 'A')
                    intarray[i] = 10;
                if (ch[i] == 'B')
                    intarray[i] = 11;
                if (ch[i] == 'C')
                    intarray[i] = 12;
                if (ch[i] == 'D')
                    intarray[i] = 13;
                if (ch[i] == 'E')
                    intarray[i] = 14;
                if (ch[i] == 'F')
                    intarray[i] = 15;

                decimalval += intarray[i] * (decimal)Math.Pow(16, ch.Length - 1 - i);

            }

            Console.WriteLine(decimalval);
        }

    }

}

Answer 4

Here is my function:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
class HexadecimalToDecimal
{
    static Dictionary<char, int> hexdecval = new Dictionary<char, int>{
        {'0', 0},
        {'1', 1},
        {'2', 2},
        {'3', 3},
        {'4', 4},
        {'5', 5},
        {'6', 6},
        {'7', 7},
        {'8', 8},
        {'9', 9},
        {'a', 10},
        {'b', 11},
        {'c', 12},
        {'d', 13},
        {'e', 14},
        {'f', 15},
    };

    static decimal HexToDec(string hex)
    {
        decimal result = 0;
        hex = hex.ToLower();

        for (int i = 0; i < hex.Length; i++)
        {
            char valAt = hex[hex.Length - 1 - i];
            result += hexdecval[valAt] * (int)Math.Pow(16, i);
        }

        return result;
    }

    static void Main()
    {

        Console.WriteLine("Enter Hexadecimal value");
        string hex = Console.ReadLine().Trim();

        //string hex = "29A";
        Console.WriteLine("Hex {0} is dec {1}", hex, HexToDec(hex));

        Console.ReadKey();
    }
}

Answer 5

My version is I think a little more understandable because my C# knowledge is not so high. I'm using this algorithm: http://easyguyevo.hubpages.com/hub/Convert-Hex-to-Decimal (The Example 2)

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

static class Tool
{
    public static string DecToHex(int x)
    {
        string result = "";

        while (x != 0)
        {
            if ((x % 16) < 10)
                result = x % 16 + result;
            else
            {
                string temp = "";

                switch (x % 16)
                {
                    case 10: temp = "A"; break;
                    case 11: temp = "B"; break;
                    case 12: temp = "C"; break;
                    case 13: temp = "D"; break;
                    case 14: temp = "E"; break;
                    case 15: temp = "F"; break;
                }

                result = temp + result;
            }

            x /= 16;
        }

        return result;
    }

    public static int HexToDec(string x)
    {
        int result = 0;
        int count = x.Length - 1;
        for (int i = 0; i < x.Length; i++)
        {
            int temp = 0;
            switch (x[i])
            {
                case 'A': temp = 10; break;
                case 'B': temp = 11; break;
                case 'C': temp = 12; break;
                case 'D': temp = 13; break;
                case 'E': temp = 14; break;
                case 'F': temp = 15; break;
                default: temp = -48 + (int)x[i]; break; // -48 because of ASCII
            }

            result += temp * (int)(Math.Pow(16, count));
            count--;
        }

        return result;
    }
}

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Console.Write("Enter Decimal value: ");
        int decNum = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());

        Console.WriteLine("Dec {0} is hex {1}", decNum, Tool.DecToHex(decNum));

        Console.Write("\nEnter Hexadecimal value: ");
        string hexNum = Console.ReadLine().ToUpper();

        Console.WriteLine("Hex {0} is dec {1}", hexNum, Tool.HexToDec(hexNum));

        Console.ReadKey();
    }
}

Answer 6

Try using BigNumber in C# - Represents an arbitrarily large signed integer.

Program

using System.Numerics;
...
var bigNumber = BigInteger.Parse("837593454735734579347547357233757342857087879423437472347757234945743");
Console.WriteLine(bigNumber.ToString("X"));

Output

4F30DC39A5B10A824134D5B18EEA3707AC854EE565414ED2E498DCFDE1A15DA5FEB6074AE248458435BD417F06F674EB29A2CFECF

Possible Exceptions,

ArgumentNullException - value is null.

FormatException - value is not in the correct format.

Conclusion

You can convert string and store a value in BigNumber without constraints about the size of the number unless the string is empty and non-analphabets