MATLAB Function Reference

hex2dec - Convert hexadecimal number string to decimal number

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