{"id":256,"date":"2010-05-07T15:17:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T14:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2010-05-07T15:17:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T14:17:05","slug":"mysql-convert-hex-string-to-integer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"MYSQL: Convert hex string to integer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s a few places on the web asking how to do this; while it&#8217;s easy to do<\/p>\n<p><code>SELECT x'1fb5';<\/code><\/p>\n<p>if you have the hex string stored in a field you can&#8217;t do that.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is to use <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.mysql.com\/doc\/refman\/5.0\/en\/mathematical-functions.html#function_conv\">CONV()<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ie<\/p>\n<p><code>SELECT CONV(myhexfield, 16, 10);<\/code><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s that simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s a few places on the web asking how to do this; while it&#8217;s easy to do SELECT x&#8217;1fb5&#8242;; if you have the hex string stored in a field you can&#8217;t do that. The answer is to use CONV() ie SELECT CONV(myhexfield, 16, 10); It&#8217;s that simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-webdev","tag-mysql"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}