Write a C program to convert String into Hexadecimal

By | 03.12.2016

C program to convert String into Hexadecimal


Write a C program to convert String into Hexadecimal. This article shows you how to convert string into hexadecimal. Below is the code that is used to convert a string to hexadecimal format.


Hexadecimal


According To Wikipedia, 

In mathematics and computing, hexadecimal (also base 16, or hex) is a positional numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16. It uses sixteen distinct symbols, most often the symbols 09 to represent values zero to nine, and A, B, C, D, E, F (or alternatively a, b, c, d, e, f) to represent values ten to fifteen.

  • Hexadecimal numerals are widely used by computer system designers and programmers. One hexadecimal digit represents a nibble (4 bits), which is half of an octet or byte (8 bits).
  • For example, a single byte can have values ranging from 00000000 to 11111111 in binary form, but this may be more conveniently represented as 00 to FF in hexadecimal.
  • The prefix “0x” is used in C and related languages, where this value might be denoted as 0x2AF3.

In this program we will read a String and convert the string to Hexadecimal String. We will convert each character of the string in it’s equivalent hexadecimal value and insert the converted value in a string and finally print the Hexadecimal String.

Below is the source code of the C program to convert String to Hexadecimal which is successfully compiled and run on the windows system.The Output of the program is shown below.


SOURCE : :


#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
 
int main()
{
    unsigned char str[100],strH[200];
    int i,j;
     
    printf("Enter string: ");
    scanf("%[^\n]s",str);
     
    printf("\nString is: %s\n",str);
     
    /*set strH with nulls*/
    memset(strH,0,sizeof(strH));
     
    /*converting str character into Hex and adding into strH*/
    for(i=0,j=0;i<strlen(str);i++,j+=2)
    { 
        sprintf((char*)strH+j,"%02X",str[i]);
    }
    strH[j]='\0'; /*adding NULL in the end*/
     
    printf("Hexadecimal converted string is: \n");
    printf("%s\n",strH);
     
     
    return 0;
}

Output : :


Enter string: CodezClub

String is: CodezClub
Hexadecimal converted string is:
436F64657A436C7562
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