I am pulling a string of HEX data from a file, I want it to remain HEX data to send out of a VI. When I get this data out from the file, even though it is in HEX it is HEX displayed in ASCII, so when I then convert the datatype to HEX I have values which are completely changed. I can't figure out a way to convert this back into the proper data, or to set the output of the open file function to "hex". I have tried typecasting it into a HEX string (that made sense to me!) and converting it into a byte aray but could not find a solution. Is there a way to display data in HEX? See attached below. The file to open is also attached.