Hexadecimal to Decimal Conversion in C

Hexadecimal to Decimal Conversion

Here, in this section, we will discuss the C program for Hexadecimal to decimal conversion. A decimal number can be attained by multiplying every digit of binary digit with a power of 16 and adding each multiplication outcome. The power of the integer starts from 0 and counts to n-1 where n is assumed as the overall digits of integers in the HexaDecimal number.

Ex:-  (1C6F)16 = 1 * 163 + 12 * 162 + 6 * 161 + 15 * 160
4096 + 3072 + 96 + 15 = (7279)10
HexaDecimal to Decimal in C new

How Does HexaDecimal Work?

Hexadecimal has numbers in the range of [0, 15]. With (0 – 9) represented as is and the others represented with alphabets.

  • A – 10
  • B – 11
  • C – 12
  • D – 13
  • E – 14
  • F – 15

Method 1

For a user input num. This requires you to know ASCII values, please check the ASCII table here 

The method uses the following – 

  • Linear iterative loop spanning the character array
  • Two sub-if-else loops to decide if the current character is a digit or alphabet
  • Mathematical calculation to convert to decimal

Code in C

Run

#include
#include
#include

int convert(char hex[])
{
    int len = strlen(hex);
    int decimal = 0, pos = 0;
    
    for(int i = len - 1; i >= 0; i--)
    {
        // if given index value is a digit (0 - 9)
        if (hex[i] >= '0' && hex[i] <= '9') { // if character is in range '0' - '9' // can convert char value to its int value // by subtracting 48 (Refer Ascii table) as ASCII val 0 : 48 int digit = hex[i] - 48; decimal += digit * pow(16, pos); pos++; } // if given index is char in range [A, F] else if (hex[i] >= 'A' && hex[i] <= 'F') 
        { 
            // if character is in range 'A' - 'F' 
            // can convert char value to its int value 
            // by subtracting 55 (Refer Ascii table) as 
            // ASCII val A : 65 and A must result 10 as value 
            int digit = hex[i] - 55; 
            decimal += digit * pow(16, pos); 
            pos++; 
        } 
    } 
    return decimal; 
}
int main()
{
char hex[20];
scanf("%[^\n]", &hex);

printf("%d",convert(hex));
return 0;
}

Output

1C
28

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