Hex 01A9 to 16-binary?

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WARRIOR24
WARRIOR24 on 16 Dec 2020
Edited: Stephen23 on 17 Dec 2020
I am trying to convert this input 01A9 into binary
4bit Hex input
01A9
16bit Binary Output
0000 0001 1010 1001
**no spaces

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 16 Dec 2020
H = '01A9';
dec2bin(sscanf(H, '%4x'),16)
ans = '0000000110101001'
Note that the result will be character.
H can have more than 4 characters, and will be interpreted 4 characters at a time from the beginning . So if H is not an exact multiple of 4 characters, this particular algorithm will not implicitly pad from the begining with 0's -- only the last group will be 0 padded.
dec2bin(sscanf('01A9876', '%4x'),16)
ans = 2x16 char array
'0000000110101001' '0000100001110110'
This was interpretered as 01A9 (0)876.
If you needed to be padded with leading 0s implicitly then that could certainly be programmed.

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Stephen23
Stephen23 on 17 Dec 2020
Edited: Stephen23 on 17 Dec 2020
No loops, no padding, works correctly for any number of hex digits (not just 16 bits):
H = '01A9';
B = reshape(dec2bin(sscanf(H,'%1x'),4).',1,[])
B = '0000000110101001'

James Tursa
James Tursa on 16 Dec 2020
Edited: James Tursa on 16 Dec 2020
E.g., if H is not too big:
H = '01A9';
B = dec2bin(hex2dec(H),numel(H)*4)
Otherwise you will need some form of a loop (explicit or hidden in a function call). E.g.,
C = arrayfun(@(h)dec2bin(hex2dec(h),4),H,'uni',false);
B = [C{:}]

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