AN-332 Hexadecimal string to Integer Decimal number

AN-332 Hexadecimal string to Integer Decimal number

This document exposes a useful BASIC subroutine to parse a hexadecimal string value to a decimal integer and store it into a VR. It does something similar to the BASIC command VAL(“numerical_string”), which converts a string to a numerical value.

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