Converts number to a string of hexadecimal digits at least width characters wide or wider if necessary. The digits A-F always appear in uppercase in the output string. If number is floating-point or fixed-point, it is rounded to a 64-bit integer before conversion.

The connector pane displays the default data types for this polymorphic function.


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Inputs/Outputs

  • ci32.png number —

    number can be a scalar number, array or cluster of numbers, array of clusters of numbers, and so on.

  • ci16.png width (-) —

    width must be numeric. If unwired, the function uses exactly as many digits as are needed to represent the number, with no extra padding.

  • istr.png hex integer string —

    hex integer string is the resulting hexadecimal string.

    The following table shows how the values of number and width affect hex integer string.
    numberwidthhex integer stringComments
    340003If width is larger than needed, zeros are added on the left.
    42302A—
    –4.23FFFFFFFC–4.2 is rounded up to –4 in 64-bit integer format. Width is too small to represent the hex version of a negative number, so the field width is extended.