I've been searching for a solution to my problem for days but can't get a spot-on answer when looking at previously answered questions/ blogs / tutorials etc. all over the internet.
My aim is to write a program which takes a decimal number as an input and then calculates the hexadecimal number and also prints the unicode-symbol of said hexadecimal number (\uXXXX). My problem is I can't "convert" the hexadecimal number to unicode. (It has to be written in this format: \uXXXX)
Example:
Input:
122 (= Decimal)
Output:
Hexadecimal: 7A
Unicode: \u007A | Unicode Symbol: Latin small letter "z"
The only thing I've managed to do is print the unicode (\u007A), but I want the symbol ("z"). I thought if the unicode only has 4 numbers/letters, I would just need to "copy" the hexadecimal into the code and fill up the remaining places with 0's and it kinda worked, but as I said I need the symbol not the code. So I tried and tried, but I just couldn't get the symbol. By my understanding, if you want the symbol you need to print it as a string. But when trying it with a string I get the error "illegal unicode escape".
It's like you only can print pre-determined unicodes and not "random" ones generated on the spot in relation of your input.
I'm only a couple days into Java, so apologies if I have missed anything.
Thank you for reading.
My code:
int dec;
int quotient;
int rest;
int[]hex = new int[10];
char[]chars = new char[]{
'F',
'E',
'D',
'C',
'B',
'A'
};
String unicode;
// Input Number
System.out.println("Input decimal number:");
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
dec = input.nextInt();
//
// "Converting to hexadecimal
quotient = dec / 16;
rest = dec % 16;
hex[0] = rest;
int j = 1;
while (quotient != 0) {
rest = quotient % 16;
quotient = quotient / 16;
hex[j] = rest;
j++;
}
//
/*if (j == 1) {
unicode = '\u000';
}
if (j == 2) {
unicode = '\u00';
}
if (j == 3) {
unicode = '\u0';
}*/
System.out.println("Your number: " + dec);
System.out.print("The corresponding Hexadecimal number: ");
for (int i = j - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
if (hex[i] > 9) {
if (j == 1) {
unicode = "\u000" + String.valueOf(chars[16 - hex[i] - 1]);
}
if (j == 2) {
unicode = "\u00" + String.valueOf(chars[16 - hex[i] - 1]);
}
if (j == 3) {
unicode = "\u0" + String.valueOf(chars[16 - hex[i] - 1]);
}
System.out.print(chars[16 - hex[i] - 1]);
} else {
if (j == 1) {
unicode = "\u000" + Character.valueOf[hex[i]);
}
if (j == 2) {
unicode = "\u00" + Character.valueOf(hex[i]);
}
if (j == 3) {
unicode = "\u0" + Character.valueOf(hex[i]);
}
System.out.print(hex[i]);
}
}
System.out.println();
System.out.print("Unicode: " + (unicode));
}
It's not an advanced code whatsoever, I wrote it exactly how I would calculate it on paper. Dividing the number through 16 until I get a 0 and what remains while doing so is the hexadecimal equivalent. So I put it in a while loop, since I would divide the number n-times until I got 0, the condition would be to repeat the division until the quotient equals zero. While doing so the remains of each division would be the numbers/letters of my hexadecimal number, so I need them to be saved. I choose an integer array to do so. Rest (remains) = hex[j]. I also threw a variable in the called "j", so I would now how many times the division was repeated. So I could determine how long the hexadecimal is. In the example it would 2 letters/numbers long (7A), so j = 2. The variable would then be used to determine how many 0's I would need to fill up the unicode with. If I have only 2 letters/numbers, it means there are 2 empty spots after \u, so we add two zeros, to get \u007A instead of \u7A.
Also the next if-command replaces any numbers higher than 9 with a character from the char array above. Basically just like you would do on paper.
I'm very sorry for this insanely long question.
You can simply use System.out.printf or String.format to do what you want.
Example:
int decimal = 122;
System.out.printf("Hexadecimal: %X\n", decimal);
System.out.printf("Unicode: u%04X\n", decimal);
System.out.printf("Latin small letter: %c\n", (char)decimal);
Output:
Hexadecimal: 7A
Unicode: u007A
Latin small letter: z