sdarre / hexc

Base converter for the terminal written in C.

hexc

Terminal program for converting to and from any base from 2 to 36.

To build, run make. To install, build and run sudo make install. To uninstall, run sudo make uninstall.

Run hexc [operator] [strings] or hexc -i[input base] -o[output base] [strings] to produce a converted string or series of strings.

The operators are as follows:

Operator	Description	Operator	Description
-bd	Binary to decimal	-hb	Hexadecimal to binary
-bh	Binary to hexadecimal	-hd	Hexadecimal to decimal
-bo	Binary to octal	-ho	Hexadecimal to octal
-db	Decimal to binary	-ob	Octal to binary
-dh	Decimal to hexadecimal	-od	Octal to decimal
-do	Decimal to octal	-oh	Octal to hexadecimal

hexc can be fed several strings, separated by whitespace. Bases can range from 2 to 36. The maximum value that can be entered for any given string is 18446744073709551615_dec.

Examples

~$ hexc -bd 10101 111
10101 -> 21
111 -> 7
~$ hexc -i8 -o16 312
312 -> CA

hexc's Issues

value too large, occurs for relatively small input size

This is super useful, but the way it currently handles conversions is limiting.

Many online tools can handle large hex/decimal inputs.

Would you consider using a different datatype to facilitate larger inputs?

feature request: chr conversion

Can you please add conversion to / from chr (character)? This would be very useful for me.

For example:

hexc -oc 042
042 -> "

hexc -cd !
! -> 33

Thanks!