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decoding macro

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From: Nick Fatica
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:22
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I'm looking for a spreadsheet macro (I'm using Quattro Pro - Special Edition)
that will read a four digit hex number (entered as a label) from a cell, parse
it, and enter numbers in the appropriate columns in that row according to the
state of each bit in the hex number.  For example:

     A B C D E F G H I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z AA BB
     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

0362   2   4   6   8 9    11       14 15    17       20    22    24 25       28

One way to look at this "encoding" is to start from the right and let each odd
number represent a "1" and each even number represent a "0" and then divide the
even/odd pairs into groups of four (21/22, 23/24, 25/26, 27,28).  So for the
above example, 22,24,25,28 would correspond to 0010, which can be represented
as a hex 2.
-- 
Nick Fatica   fatican@astro.pc.ab.com
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Subject: decoding macro
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