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User Commands Int2Hex and Hex2Int

Outdated: the Dyalog built-in user command got improved and can now deal with the cases outlined on this page.

Overview

Although Dyalog comes from two built-in user commands for converting a hex number into an integer and vice versa (]ToHex and ]FromHex), fromHex is too limited to be really useful.

For example, is one wishes to convert an error code returned by the Windows Task Scheduler:

      ]tohex 2147942667                              
* Command Execution Failed: must be 32 bits signed integer

With the excellent function Hex written and contributed by PhilLast - which is the internal engine of the two user commands - this can be avoided:

      ]Int2hex 2147942667                              
8007010b
      ]Hex2Int 8007010b
2147942667

This is Phil's underlying code:

      Hex←{
          ⎕IO←0 ⋄ ⎕ML←1
          t←0∊⊃⍬⍴0⍴⊂⍵
          a←⎕D,'abcdef',⎕D,6⍴⎕A
          t:a⌷⍨⊂⍉16⊥⍣¯1⊢⍵
          16⊥⍉16|a⍳⍵
    ⍝ ⍵ dec-number or hex-string
    ⍝ ← hex-string or dec-number
    ⍝   accepts hex as CAPS or small
    ⍝   returns hex as small
    ⍝   dec to hex is rank increasing
    ⍝   hex to dec is rank decreasing
      }

Download

Download the script.

Authors: Logic=PhilLast, user command=KaiJaeger

CategoryDyalogUserCommands

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-## page was renamed from UserCommand_Adoc
## page was renamed from UserCommandAdoc
= User Command ADOC (Dyalog) =
+= User Commands Int2Hex and Hex2Int =

|| ```Outdated: the Dyalog built-in user command got improved and can now deal with the cases outlined on this page.``` ||
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-[[ADOC]] is a utility useful to generate documentation (semi-) automatically from class scripts as well as namespace scripts.
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-Obviously it makes sense to make ADOC's services available as a User Command.
+Although Dyalog comes from two built-in user commands for converting a hex number into an integer and vice versa (`]ToHex` and `]FromHex`), `fromHex` is too limited to be really useful.
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-This page offers a small class script `ADOC` which is designed to do exactly that.

== Assumptions ==
When User Commands got introduced in Dyalog with version 12.1, the User Commands where expected to reside in a sub folder `Salt\Spice` inside the Dyalog installation folder. This means that the script `ADOC.dyalog` attached to this page must go into this directory. Only then the User Commd "ADOC" is recognized.

That script, which represents the ADOC User Command, assumes that there is a sibling folder of your APL installation folder available named `UserCommands`. Please make sure that the [[ADOC]] script is copied into this folder `UserCommands`. This enables the User Command script to address the '''real''' ADOC script  `{MyDyalogInstallationFolder}..\UserCommands\ADOC`.

For example, in case your version of APL is installed in `C:\Program Files (x86)\Dyalog\Dyalog APL 12.1 Unicode` which is the default on Windows 7 64 bit, then the folder `UserCommands` is supposed to be located at `C:\Program Files (x86)\Dyalog\UserCommands`.

== Samples ==
Given that the two different ADOC scripts went into the right folders, this would be a sample session:
+For example, is one wishes to convert an error code returned by the Windows Task Scheduler:
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-      ]?ADOC
"??" for general help, "?CMD" for more specific info on command CMD
+      ]tohex 2147942667                              
* Command Execution Failed: must be 32 bits signed integer
}}}
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- Group  Name         Description
 =====  ====         ===========
 ADOC   ADOC.Browse  Creates full documentation and displayes it in the default browser
        ADOC.List    Prints syntax of all public stuff to the session
+With the excellent function `Hex` written and contributed by PhilLast - which is the internal engine of the two user commands - this can be avoided:
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-      ]?ADOC.Browse
Command "ADOC.Browse". Syntax: 1 arguments; accepts switches -b=
Script location: ........\SALT\Spice\ADOC
+{{{
      ]Int2hex 2147942667                              
8007010b
      ]Hex2Int 8007010b
2147942667
}}}
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-Gathers all sort of information from a class script,
compiles an HTML page with these pieces of information
and displays it in a browser. Use the -b flag to specify
a browser different from your default browser.
+This is Phil's underlying code:
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-      ]?ADOC.List
Command "ADOC.List".
Script location: ........\SALT\Spice\ADOC

Prints a list with all sorts of information to the session
about all public stuff given in the script specified in the right argument

]ADOC.Help
Watch your browser

Shows extensive information about ADOC. It's basically doing `ADOC.Browse ADOC`.
+{{{
      Hex←{
          ⎕IO←0 ⋄ ⎕ML←1
          t←0∊⊃⍬⍴0⍴⊂⍵
          a←⎕D,'abcdef',⎕D,6⍴⎕A
          t:a⌷⍨⊂⍉16⊥⍣¯1⊢⍵
          16⊥⍉16|a⍳⍵
    ⍝ ⍵ dec-number or hex-string
    ⍝ ← hex-string or dec-number
    ⍝   accepts hex as CAPS or small
    ⍝   returns hex as small
    ⍝   dec to hex is rank increasing
    ⍝   hex to dec is rank decreasing
      }
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-[[attachment:ADOC.dyalog | Download]] the script.
+[[attachment:Hex.dyalog | Download]] the script.
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-== Version ==
The script is version 1.0.2 from 2010-12-26

Author: KaiJaeger
+Authors: Logic=PhilLast, user command=KaiJaeger