--[[--------------- Hex v0.4 ------------------- Hex conversion lib for lua. How to use: hex.to_hex(n) -- convert a number to a hex string hex.to_dec(hex) -- convert a hex string(prefix with '0x' or '0X') to number Part of LuaBit(http://luaforge.net/projects/bit/). Under the MIT license. copyright(c) 2006~2007 hanzhao (abrash_han@hotmail.com) 2013-02-20: Brad Jorsch: Fix to not try messing with globals, doesn't work in Scribunto --]]--------------- local bit = require 'bit' do local function to_hex(n) if(type(n) ~= "number") then error("non-number type passed in.") end -- checking not float if(n - math.floor(n) > 0) then error("trying to apply bitwise operation on non-integer!") end if(n < 0) then -- negative n = bit.tobits(bit.bnot(math.abs(n)) + 1) n = bit.tonumb(n) end local hex_tbl = {'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F'} local hex_str = "" while(n ~= 0) do local last = math.mod(n, 16) if(last < 10) then hex_str = tostring(last) .. hex_str else hex_str = hex_tbl[last-10+1] .. hex_str end n = math.floor(n/16) end if(hex_str == "") then hex_str = "0" end return "0x" .. hex_str end local function to_dec(hex) if(type(hex) ~= "string") then error("non-string type passed in.") end local head = string.sub(hex, 1, 2) if( head ~= "0x" and head ~= "0X") then error("wrong hex format, should lead by 0x or 0X.") end return tonumber(string.sub(hex, 3), 16) end -------------------- -- hex lib interface local hex = { to_dec = to_dec, to_hex = to_hex, } return hex end --[[ -- test d = 4341688 h = to_hex(d) print(h) print(to_dec(h)) for i = 1, 100000 do h = hex.to_hex(i) d = hex.to_dec(h) if(d ~= i) then error("failed " .. i .. ", " .. h) end end --]]