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Posted: **Wed Aug 20, 2025 6:51 pm**

If I do this sort of thing:

put codePointToNum("Ξ")

I get 926, which is that code point's Unicode address in decimal format . . .

which is a bit of a pain in the bum as I should like it in Hexadecimal (39E) without having to play "silly buggers' with the calculator app (especially when I have about 3,000 of those to cope with) . . .

Is there any way to use codepointToNum to get a Hex number?

This is inaccurate:
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insofar is does NOT state that that number is returned in decimal format.

This can be done in JavaScript:

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(945).toString(16); // returns "3b1"

Of course I could use baseConvert, but I was wondering if there was a more direct method.

Posted: **Wed Aug 20, 2025 7:02 pm**

richmond.

Try:

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function charToHex pChar
   return format("%04X",codePointToNum(pChar))
end charToHex

Craig

Posted: **Wed Aug 20, 2025 7:54 pm**

richmond62 wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 20, 2025 6:51 pm
Of course I could use baseConvert, but I was wondering if there was a more direct method.

How is this not a direct method? This is the proper tool in liveCode to do just what you're asking, simply.

For your use case, 1 line:

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get baseConvert(codepointToNum(<char>), 10, 16)

To make it easier, you could wrap this into a stack-level function to simplify coding, eg:

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function hexOfChar pChar
    return baseConvert(codepointToNum(pChar), 10, 16)
end hexOfChar

You can then call this simply with:

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put hexOfChar(<char>) into <whatever>

Attached is a tiny stack that has this in its stack script so can be used anywhere, very simply. The stack script fires on textChanged of the source field.

Posted: **Wed Aug 20, 2025 7:58 pm**

Thank you both for your help.

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