Guru: Legible Hexadecimal

August 28, 2017 Ted Holt

Since I am a normal red-blooded human being, I try to make life as easy as possible for myself. I don’t do very well in general, but occasionally I manage to afford myself a bit of comfort. Recently I had to deal with long strings of hexadecimal digits. Trying to read that stuff was more than I could deal with, so I wrote a function to help me.

It’s easy to think of hexadecimal literal as strings because they contain the letters A through F. However, they are not strings, but numbers. We use the letters A through F for …