CODE HERE TO COVERT FROM STRING TO HEX, WHICH COULD BE USED
AS A BASIS FOR DOING OTHER NUMBER-BASE CONVERSIONS...
function HexStrToNumber(byteString: String): Integer;
function GetHexUnits(byteChar: Char): Integer;
function GetHexSixteens(byteChar: Char): Integer;
function StrToHex(byteString: String);
function StrToHex(byteString: String);
var
total: Integer;
begin
total := HexStrToNumber(byteString);
end;
function TParseForm.HexStrToNumber(byteString: String): Integer;
{at this point we have one or two characters in a string representing
a Hex value... the rightmost character represents units, from 0 to 15,
while the leftmost character (if there ARE two) represents sixteens, from
16 to 255, so, taking this into account we do a bit of simple arithmetic...}
var
units, sixteens, total: Integer;
strLen: Integer;
begin
strLen := Length(byteString);
if (strLen = 1) then
begin
total := GetHexUnits(byteString[1]);
Result := total;
end;
if (strLen = 2) then
begin
units := GetHexUnits(byteString[2]);
sixteens := GetHexSixteens(byteString[1]);
total := units + sixteens;
Result := total;
end;
end;
function TParseForm.GetHexUnits(byteChar: Char): Integer;
var
units: Integer;
begin
units := 0;
if (byteChar = '0') then units := 0;
if (byteChar = '1') then units := 1;
if (byteChar = '2') then units := 2;
if (byteChar = '3') then units := 3;
if (byteChar = '4') then units := 4;
if (byteChar = '5') then units := 5;
if (byteChar = '6') then units := 6;
if (byteChar = '7') then units := 7;
if (byteChar = '8') then units := 8;
if (byteChar = '9') then units := 9;
if (byteChar = 'A') then units := 10;
if (byteChar = 'B') then units := 11;
if (byteChar = 'C') then units := 12;
if (byteChar = 'D') then units := 13;
if (byteChar = 'E') then units := 14;
if (byteChar = 'F') then units := 15;
Result := units;
end;
function TParseForm.GetHexSixteens(byteChar: Char): Integer;
var
sixteens: Integer;
begin
sixteens := 0;
if (byteChar = '0') then sixteens := 0;
if (byteChar = '1') then sixteens := 16;
if (byteChar = '2') then sixteens := 32;
if (byteChar = '3') then sixteens := 48;
if (byteChar = '4') then sixteens := 64;
if (byteChar = '5') then sixteens := 80;
if (byteChar = '6') then sixteens := 96;
if (byteChar = '7') then sixteens := 112;
if (byteChar = '8') then sixteens := 128;
if (byteChar = '9') then sixteens := 144;
if (byteChar = 'A') then sixteens := 160;
if (byteChar = 'B') then sixteens := 176;
if (byteChar = 'C') then sixteens := 192;
if (byteChar = 'D') then sixteens := 208;
if (byteChar = 'E') then sixteens := 224;
if (byteChar = 'F') then sixteens := 240;
Result := sixteens;
end;