JavaScript and MAC address

[enaiman]

Sorry for such a title; it seem to be too hard to give an accurate title.

Basically I have a list of MAC addresses in a text format (0.192.65.3.36.66, ....) and so on and I would like to get it in a "hex" format (0.C0.41.3.24.42, ...)

The problem is: the application handling these MAC addresses uses xml and Java Script and the only way to get these "transformed" is to put a chunk of code in an <expression> tag ...

I've spent several hours trying to figure how to do it without much success.

So far I have managed to successfully do the following:

- use a regEx to get matches for "numbers"

- replace the matches with something else

Problems?

- the matches are regarded as strings (not numbers) and I have no idea how to continue

Here is the code I have attempted so far:

var str="0.142.9.33.58.6";
var patt1=/\d{1,}/g;

str2=str.replace(patt1, "match");
document.write(str2);

This script is successfully replacing the matches with "match" - how can I replace the matches with their hex value??

I'm really stuck here (heh - I wish that application could use some AutoIt ...) and I will appreciate any help.

Thanks alot,

- the code can be tested here, just replace the code between the html tags and the result can be seen immediately.

[Richard Robertson]

What you'll have to do is parse each piece to a number. Then you just convert it back to a string.

myfifteen = parseInt("15"); // you'd parse each section of the number.
myfifteenhex = myfifteen.toString(16); // this converts the number to a string in base 16 (hex)

Your enumeration and replacement will have to be a two step process. First read the number, perform the conversion, and then make the replacement.

[enaiman]

Thank you very much for your help.

I have managed finally to write a script to do that, just to discover that I cannot use a script - actually what I can use is very limited.

Well, I guess I'll have to find another way.

[Richard Robertson]

Well good luck then.