Byte to Char

[thecaptain0220]

Ok pretty much what I need to do is convert a byte to hex. Now obviously there is more to it than that. I also know there is no byte type in c++ so i need to figure out what to use as a substitute. Here is what I have right now.

char strNum;
strNum = (char)0x10;

So basically the character strNum will contain the character created from the byte 00010000. Now my program works great like this. Now I have decided to change the implementation though. Basically 1 or a few bits will need to be changed in the byte. So i need to create somthing to represent the byte. I guess anything really, like an integer array or character array, but I need to know what would probably be best. Then I need to get that into strNum as a character. Im not sure how to do this. I dont know if it would be eaiser to convert it to hexadecimal some way and then cast it to a character or just convert it straight to a character. I dont know if you can even do it the first way since there is no hex data type. So basically in a little overview I need to be able to change any bit in a byte and then store it in a character type. Please let me know how you think I should go about this.
Thank you

 

[cpjust]

I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but a char is a byte (although unsigned char might be more appropriate to use as a 'byte' type).
0x10 is exactly the same as 16, so all of these work identically:

int i   = 16; // or 0x10
long l  = 16; // or 0x10
short s = 16; // or 0x10
char c  = (char)16;

c = (char)i;
c = (char)l;
c = (char)s;
c = (char)0x10;

 

[ArkM]

You may write char constants as '\x10' (no need in explicit cast). Really in bit logic ops (as &, |, ~, ^) char values implicitly promoted to int so least 8 bits present byte value.
IMHO, it's sufficient info to form hex value as a char string...
Apropos, no such animal as hex (or binary, or octal and so on data type.