Converting Dec Numbers

[sneakers]

I sometimes use the Hex$ function to convert a large Dec number to a Hex string in VB6. This works great to a point. If a Dec number is greater than 2147483647 the Hex$ function returns an overflow error. This is due to the Hex$ function only going to 8 places and 2147483647 = 7FFFFFFF.

If a larger number needs to be converted it will probably require writing a routine to do this for me. I do not think there is any mathematical formula that will do this for me.

Any ideas?

[sorex]

in assembler you could shift the value 16 times to the right and they you had the upper 16 bit as seperate value.

so actually what you do is a hex division by 65535

so your value will be something like

x=hex(value shr 16) & right("00000000"&hex(value and &hFFFFFFFF),8)

probably not the correct syntax but I guess you get the idea

[sneakers]

In assembly langue all numbers are dtored as hex in memory locations anyway. It is the actual conversion to hex I am trying to replicate.