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From: shehzad@babel.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Mevawalla Shezad)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Wanted : Routine to convert ASCII hex numbers into decimal value
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Date: 28 Apr 89 17:41:47 GMT
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Thanks a whole bunch to everyone who responded. I felt pretty stupid when I
realized how trivial the conversion routine was. A lot of people suggested
using the Turbo Pacal "Val" function. I was already aware of this but what
I actually needed was something which could convert Hex Strings > FFFFFFFF
which Val cannot do (i.e. type real). But even then the conversion was very 
simple. I was so bogged down with other programming tasks that I didn't stop
to think before I posted my request. When I finally did think about
it it took me all of 10 minutes to code the routine.

My humble apologies and many many thanks to all those who responded.

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Shehzad Mevawalla                               shehzad@babel.SanDiego.NCR.COM
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