# hex

Hexadecimal representation of stored integer of `fi` object

`hex(a)`

## Description

`hex(a)` returns the stored integer of `fi` object `a` in hexadecimal format as a string. `hex(a)` is equivalent to `a.hex`.

Fixed-point numbers can be represented as

$real\text{-}worldvalue={2}^{-fractionlength}×storedinteger$

or, equivalently as

$real\text{-}worldvalue=\left(slope×storedinteger\right)+bias$

The stored integer is the raw binary number, in which the binary point is assumed to be at the far right of the word.

## Examples

Viewing fi Objects in Hexadecimal Format

The following code

```a = fi([-1 1],1,8,7); y = hex(a) z = a.hex```

returns

```y = 80 7f z = 80 7f ```

Writing Hex Data to a File

The following example shows how to write hex data from the MATLAB® workspace into a text file.

First, define your data and create a writable text file called `hexdata.txt`:

```x = (0:15)'/16; a = fi(x,0,16,16); h = fopen('hexdata.txt','w'); ```

Use the `fprintf` function to write your data to the `hexdata.txt` file:

```for k=1:length(a) fprintf(h,'%s\n',hex(a(k))); end fclose(h); ```

To see the contents of the file you created, use the `type` function:

```type hexdata.txt ```

MATLAB returns:

```0000 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000 9000 a000 b000 c000 d000 e000 f000 ```

Reading Hex Data from a File

The following example shows how to read hex data from a text file back into the MATLAB workspace.

Open `hexdata.txt` for reading and read its contents into a workspace variable:

```h = fopen('hexdata.txt','r'); nextline = ''; str=''; while ischar(nextline) nextline = fgetl(h); if ischar(nextline) str = [str;nextline]; end end ```

Create a `fi` object with the correct scaling and assign it the hex values stored in the `str` variable:

```b = fi([],0,16,16); b.hex = str b = 0 0.0625 0.1250 0.1875 0.2500 0.3125 0.3750 0.4375 0.5000 0.5625 0.6250 0.6875 0.7500 0.8125 0.8750 0.9375 DataTypeMode: Fixed-point: binary point scaling Signedness: Unsigned WordLength: 16 FractionLength: 16```

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