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# hexdec

(PHP 3 <= 3.0.18, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

hexdec -- Hexadecimal to decimal

## Description

``int hexdec` (string hex_string)`

Returns the decimal equivalent of the hexadecimal number represented by the hex_string argument. hexdec() converts a hexadecimal string to a decimal number. The largest number that can be converted is 7fffffff or 2147483647 in decimal.

hexdec() will replace of any non-hexadecimal characters it encounters by `0`. This way, all left zeros are ignored, but right zeros will be valued.

Example 1. hexdec() example
    var_dump(hexdec("See"));
    var_dump(hexdec("ee"));
    // both prints "int(238)"

    var_dump(hexdec("that"));
    var_dump(hexdec("a0"));
    // both prints int(160)

See also dechex().

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