Converting Hexadecimal String to Decimal Integer

Question

I wrote some code to convert my hexadecimal display string to decimal integer. However, when input is something like 100a or 625b( something with letter) I got an error like

Answer 1

    Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.println("Enter the value");
    String s = sc.next();
    //String s = "AD";
    String s1 = s.toUpperCase();
    int power = 0;
    double result = 0;      
    char[] c = s1.toCharArray();
    for (int i = c.length-1; i >=0  ; i--) {
        boolean a = true;
        switch(c[i]){
        case 'A': c[i] = 10; a = false; break;
        case 'B': c[i] = 11; a = false; break;
        case 'C': c[i] = 12; a = false; break;
        case 'D': c[i] = 13; a = false; break;
        case 'E': c[i] = 14; a = false; break;
        case 'F': c[i] = 15; a = false; break;  
        }
        if(a==true){
            result = result + (c[i]-48) * Math.pow(16, power++);
       }else {
           result = result + (c[i]) * Math.pow(16, power++);
       }

    }
    System.out.println(result);

Answer 2

public class Hex2Decimal {

public static void hexDec(String num)
{
    int sum=0;
    int newnum = 0;
    String digit = num.toUpperCase();
    for(int i=0;i<digit.length();i++)
    {
        char c = digit.charAt(digit.length()-i-1);

        if(c=='A')
        {
            newnum = 10;

        }
        else if(c=='B')
        {
            newnum = 11;

        }
        if(c=='C')
        {
            newnum = 12;

        }
        if(c=='D')
        {
            newnum = 13;

        }
        if(c=='E')
        {
            newnum = 14;

        }
        if(c=='F')
        {
            newnum = 15;

        }
        else
        {
            newnum = Character.getNumericValue(c);
        }
        sum = (int) (sum + newnum*Math.pow(16,i));


    }

    System.out.println(" HexaDecimal to Decimal conversion is" + sum);



}

public static void main(String[] args) {

hexDec("9F");

} }

Answer 3

Well, Mr.ajb has resolved and pointed out the error in your code.

Coming to the second part of the code, that is, converting a string with letters to decimal integer below is code for that,

import java.util.Scanner;

public class HexaToDecimal
{
   int number;

   void getValue()
   {
      Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
      System.out.println("Please enter hexadecimal to convert: ");
      number = Integer.parseInt(sc.nextLine(), 16);
      sc.close();
   }

   void toConvert()
   {
      String decimal = Integer.toString(number);
      System.out.println("The Decimal value is : " + decimal);
   }

   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
      HexaToDecimal htd = new HexaToDecimal();
      htd.getValue();
      htd.toConvert();
   }
}

You can refer example on hexadecimal to decimal for more information.

Answer 4

It looks like there's an extra space character in your string. You can use trim() to remove leading and trailing whitespaces:

temp1 = Integer.parseInt(display.getText().trim(), 16 );

Or if you think the presence of a space means there's something else wrong, you'll have to look into it yourself, since we don't have the rest of your code.

Answer 5

void htod(String hexadecimal)
{
    int h = hexadecimal.length() - 1;
    int d = 0;
    int n = 0;

    for(int i = 0; i<hexadecimal.length(); i++)
    {
        char ch = hexadecimal.charAt(i);
        boolean flag = false;
        switch(ch)
        {
            case '1': n = 1; break;
            case '2': n = 2; break;
            case '3': n = 3; break;
            case '4': n = 4; break;
            case '5': n = 5; break;
            case '6': n = 6; break;
            case '7': n = 7; break;
            case '8': n = 8; break;
            case '9': n = 9; break;
            case 'A': n = 10; break;
            case 'B': n = 11; break;
            case 'C': n = 12; break;
            case 'D': n = 13; break;
            case 'E': n = 14; break;
            case 'F': n = 15; break;
            default : flag = true;
        }
        if(flag)
        {
            System.out.println("Wrong Entry"); 
            break;
        }
        d = (int)(n*(Math.pow(16,h))) + (int)d;
        h--;
    }
    System.out.println("The decimal form of hexadecimal number "+hexadecimal+" is " + d);
}

Answer 6

Since there is no brute-force approach which (done with it manualy). To know what exactly happened.

Given a hexadecimal number

KₙKₙ₋₁Kₙ₋₂....K₂K₁K₀

The equivalent decimal value is:

Kₙ * 16ₙ + Kₙ₋₁ * 16ₙ₋₁ + Kₙ₋₂ * 16ₙ₋₂ + .... + K₂ * 16₂ + K₁ * 16₁ + K₀ * 16₀

For example, the hex number AB8C is:

10 * 16₃ + 11 * 16₂ + 8 * 16₁ + 12 * 16₀ = 43916

Implementation:

 //convert hex to decimal number
private static int hexToDecimal(String hex) {
    int decimalValue = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < hex.length(); i++) {
        char hexChar = hex.charAt(i);
        decimalValue = decimalValue * 16 + hexCharToDecimal(hexChar);
    }
    return decimalValue;
}
private static int hexCharToDecimal(char character) {
    if (character >= 'A' && character <= 'F')
        return 10 + character - 'A';
    else //character is '0', '1',....,'9'
        return character - '0';
}