Decimal Hexadecimal Binary (DHB) Converter

This project implements a command line utility that converts arbitrarily large, positive integers to/from decimal, hexadecimal, octal, and binary.

Building

To build the project locally, you will need the following libraries and tools installed:

• CMake3.13+
• C++ compiler supporting C++20 features
• GNU MP Developer Libraries

To build the project, change directory to the scripts/ directory and run build.sh

./build.sh

Note build.sh supports additional option flags for building the project docs (requires Doxygen) and unit tests. Run build.sh -h to see all the options.

After a successful build, you will find the binary installed to dhb/bin/dhb.

Program Usage

dhb tool usage is as follows:

dhb [OPTION]... SRC_BASE TGT_BASE NUM

SRC_BASE and TGT_BASE tell the number base used in the source number, NUM, and the desired base for the output. SRC_BASE and TGT_BASE can be anyone of the supported base strings: bin, dec, oct, or hex.

There are additional options for specifying the width of the output value as well as how to group the digits. Run dhb --help for more details.

Below are few dhb demo commands:

dhb hex dec 0xDEADBEEF --> 3735928559
dhb dec bin 3735928559 --> 11011110101011011011111011101111
dhb dec oct 3735928559 --> 33653337357
dhb -g 4 dec hex 3735928559 --> DEAD BEEF
dhb -g 4 -w 12 dec hex 3735928559 --> 0000 DEAD BEEF

Running the Tests

dhb has been unit tested using the GoogleTest framework in conjunction with ctest. Be sure to run submodule init/update or clone the repo using the --recursive flag to pull down GoogleTest sources.

To build the unit tests, run the build script as before with the addition of the -t flag:

./build.sh -t

To run the test, change directory to dhb/build and run ctest.