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Sunny Leung
Sunny Leung

Reputation: 105

How to flip an integer that represents a 8-digit hex string in Lua?

In my Lua script, I have a variable that stores an integer found from some function that represents a hex string. I want to flip it so that, for example, if it has a value of 0x006E57E8, it will become 0x8E75E600. How do I do it in Lua?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 387

Answers (1)

Luatic
Luatic

Reputation: 11191

As an alternative to Skriptunoff's very concise & readable function, here's a function doing it using bit ops:

function reverse_nibbles(int)
    res = 0
    for i = 0, 7 do
        res = res | (((int >> (4*i)) & 0xF) << (28 - 4*i))
    end
    return res
end

This won't create a garbage string (and would hopefully be faster). You might want to hand-unroll the loop.

Upvotes: 2

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