Is there a Bin to Hex option in PowerBI

[Pandadev]

Hi I am trying to convert 24 bit binary code to hex

A formula like this worked in excel using the Bin2Hex

=RIGHT("0"&BIN2HEX(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)/3)),2)&RIGHT("0"&BIN2HEX(MID(A1,LEN(A1)/3+1,LEN(A1)/3)),2)&RIGHT("0"&BIN2HEX(MID(A1,2*LEN(A1)/3+1,LEN(A1)/3)),2)

An example 110000000101100111011110  should be C059DE

[amitchandak · Accepted solution]

@Pandadev , if it is binary not test you have code in Power Query/ M

refer

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Converting-Binary-to-hex-value-or-numeric-value/td-p/374779

For DAX, refer

https://dax.tips/2019/10/02/dax-base-conversions/

[amitchandak · Accepted solution]

@Pandadev , if it is binary not test you have code in Power Query/ M

refer

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Converting-Binary-to-hex-value-or-numeric-value/td-p/374779

For DAX, refer

https://dax.tips/2019/10/02/dax-base-conversions/

[Pandadev]

I tried this dax solution , but it comes up with an error . I converted the binary long number from text to decimal , tried converting it to binary , where it just goes to orange binary , but keep getting a MOD has wrong data type or result is too large

DEC2HEX =

VAR ConvertMe = 'Reg'[Mode S Binary]

VAR Base = 24

VAR BitTable =

GENERATESERIES ( 1, 6 )

VAR DEC2HEX =

CONCATENATEX(

BitTable,

VAR c = MOD ( TRUNC ( ConvertMe / POWER ( base, [value] - 1 ) ),base )

RETURN SWITCH(c,10,"A",11,"B",12,"C",13,"D",14,"E",15,"F",c),

,

[Value],Desc)

RETURN

{ DEC2HEX } // Returns 'FF'

[amitchandak]

@Pandadev ,

the GENERATESERIES ( 1, 6 ) should be till 8 or 16

My advice would be to use the power query way. All DAx ways are a bit complex.

[Pandadev]

I tried the M code for MODE S , which is the text binary converted to bin

= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type2", "Mode S Bin", each Binary.ToText([Mode S Binary])) converts back to text correctly

= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type2", "Mode S Hex", each BinaryEncoding.Hex([Mode S Binary])) when I tried this it just brings back error

[v-easonf-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi, @Pandadev 

I have a complicated method, if you don't think it’s clumsy  , you can try it:

It needs to use conditional column to convert "4 bit binary " to "1bit hex",then merge them.

 M query:

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUTI0NIAAQwMQ09AQRAMJpdhYAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Index = _t, #"24bit binary" = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"24bit binary", type text}, {"Index", type text}}),
    #"Duplicated Column" = Table.DuplicateColumn(#"Changed Type", "24bit binary", "24bit binary - Copy"),
    #"Split Column by Position" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Duplicated Column", "24bit binary - Copy", Splitter.SplitTextByRepeatedLengths(4), {"4bit binary - 1", "4bit binary - 2", "4bit binary - 3", "4bit binary - 4", "4bit binary - 5", "4bit binary - 6"}),
    #"Unpivoted Columns2" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Split Column by Position", {"Index", "24bit binary"}, "Attribute", "Value"),
    #"Added Conditional Column" = Table.AddColumn(#"Unpivoted Columns2", "1 bit HEX ", each if [Value] = "0000" then 0 else if [Value] = "0001" then 1 else if [Value] = "0010" then 2 else if [Value] = "0011" then 3 else if [Value] = "0100" then 4 else if [Value] = "0101" then 5 else if [Value] = "0110" then 6 else if [Value] = "0111" then 7 else if [Value] = "1000" then 8 else if [Value] = "1001" then 9 else if [Value] = "1010" then "A" else if [Value] = "1011" then "B" else if [Value] = "1100" then "C" else if [Value] = "1101" then "D" else if [Value] = "1110" then "E" else if [Value] = "1111" then "F" else null),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Added Conditional Column",{{"1 bit HEX ", type text}}),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Changed Type1",{"Value"}),
    #"Pivoted Column" = Table.Pivot(#"Removed Columns", List.Distinct(#"Removed Columns"[Attribute]), "Attribute", "1 bit HEX "),
    #"Merged Columns" = Table.CombineColumns(#"Pivoted Column",{"4bit binary - 1", "4bit binary - 2", "4bit binary - 3", "4bit binary - 4", "4bit binary - 5", "4bit binary - 6"},Combiner.CombineTextByDelimiter("", QuoteStyle.None),"Merged")
in
    #"Merged Columns"

For more details,please chech the sample file.

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Eason

[Pandadev]

Thanks , that solution worked great