Question

I’m trying to AND two hex number bit-wise in Excel/Visual Basic.

Ex. 53FDBC AND 00FFFF which should yield 00FDBC.

Any ideas on how to do this?

Answer 1

I assume you have your 2 values stored as strings. In this case you could do the following:

Dim hex1 As String hex1 = '53FDBC'  Dim hex2 As String hex2 = '00FFFF'  Dim bin1 As String bin1 = CLng('&H' & hex1)  Dim bin2 As String bin2 = CLng('&H' & hex2)  Dim result As String result = Hex$(bin1 And bin2) 

result now contains ‘FDBC’, but you may wish to pad this to the left with zeroes

As a function (excel module) this could be implemented as:

Function hexand(hex1 As String, hex2 As String) as String  Dim bin1 As String bin1 = CLng('&H' & hex1)  Dim bin2 As String bin2 = CLng('&H' & hex2)  hexand = Hex$(bin1 And bin2)  End Function