Engineering - OCT2HEX Function

Description

The OCT2HEX function onverts an octal number to hexadecimal.

Syntax

OCT2HEX (number, [places])

Arguments

Argument	Description	Required/ Optional
Number	The octal number you want to convert. Number may not contain more than 10 octal characters (30 bits). The most significant bit of number is the sign bit. The remaining 29 bits are magnitude bits. Negative numbers are represented using two's-complement notation.	Required
Places	The number of characters to use. If places is omitted, OCT2HEX uses the minimum number of characters necessary. Places is useful for padding the return value with leading 0s (zeros).	Optional

Argument

Description

Required/ Optional

Number

The octal number you want to convert.

Number may not contain more than 10 octal characters (30 bits). The most significant bit of number is the sign bit. The remaining 29 bits are magnitude bits.

Negative numbers are represented using two's-complement notation.

Required

Places

The number of characters to use.

If places is omitted, OCT2HEX uses the minimum number of characters necessary.

Places is useful for padding the return value with leading 0s (zeros).

Optional

Notes

If number is negative, OCT2HEX ignores places and returns a 10-character hexadecimal number.
If places is not an integer, it is truncated.
If number is not a valid octal number, OCT2HEX returns the #NUM! error value.
If OCT2HEX requires more than places characters, it returns the #NUM! error value.
If places is nonnumeric, OCT2HEX returns the #VALUE! error value.
If places is negative, OCT2HEX returns the #NUM! error value.

Applicability

Excel 2007, Excel 2010, Excel 2013, Excel 2016

Example

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