hex to binary

[In-Use]

I've searched and found examples of exactly what it is I want to do, but for whatever reason, I'm not getting the correct values I want. 

All I need to do is take a hex value...1F4EF5, and translate it into simple BCD so that I can take it apart at the bit level.  I'm currently following a few examples that simply take the hex string, convert it to an integer then to binary and I'm getting wrong results for the binary.  Any help would be appreciated.

[crossrulz · Accepted solution]

Are you going for something like this?

[In-Use]

Hi crossrulz,

Mostly yes, except the output I would like to be a string that way I can search it.

-Ben

[GerdW · Accepted solution]

Hi InUse,

why do you need a string to "search" it?

My approach:

[In-Use]

Hi Gerd,

String is needed or preferred rather because that is the format from the original vi that I'm modifying.  It's not necessarily required.  That said, I was able to use your example and now have working code...finaly!  Thank you to you two for the help.

-Ben

[altenbach]

You need to be very careful with the lenght.

For example if the first two digits of your input string are "00", you would get a short result with the given code. Maybe that's OK?