How to get first two characters from Hex string?

[Ciralia]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew a function that would give me the first byte of Hex characters from a hex string. Now keep in mind that I would not know the value of the characters, so I could not use any function looking for a specific string. For example: the user enters a number and it is converted to Hex behind the scenes. Lets say the number is 0xABCD. I want the AB to be stored in string variable x. But since I cannot search for AB in the string, how would I do this?

 

[paulbent]

Seems you want chars 3 & 4 in the string if it starts with 0x or &H. Use the Mid function.

Mid$(strHex, 3, 2)

Paul Bent
Northwind IT Systems

http://www.northwindit.co.uk

 

[Ciralia]

When I put that line of code using Mid$ it is asking me for an '=' . Now if the variable I want to store the value in is 'x', would it look like this?

x = Mid$(<what goes here> , 3, 2)

 

[paulbent]

The string containing the hex value &quot;goes here&quot;

Paul Bent
Northwind IT Systems

http://www.northwindit.co.uk

 

[johnwm]

...... Or you could always put your cursor on the word Mid$ in your code window and then hit {F1}

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