Hex to Decimal 2s Complement

[Mark Wieder]

On 04/27/2018 02:41 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:
> I should know this - but don't any more :-)
> 
> So there may be a corner case to fix up - but in general, something like
> 
> *put*thetextoffld"F"intotemp*
> put*baseconvert(temp,16,10) intot1*
> if* t1 > 32767*then*
> *put*t1-65536intot1*
> end* *if*
> 
> should do it.

Bingo. Thanks. I was sitting here trying to remember this stuff.
Hermann, of course, would have known this just off the top of his head.

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  Mark Wieder
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