$ cat bin2hex.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; for my $b (qw(101101110101001010010100101000101011101010101010101010 1 10 101 1010 10101 101010 11010011 000000000000001 0001111 11111 11000011 )) { print "$b --> ", bin2hex($b), "\n"; } sub bin2hex { my $bin = shift; # Make input bit string a multiple of 4 $bin = substr("0000",length($bin)%4) . $bin if length($bin)%4; my ($hex, $nybble) = (""); while (length($bin)) { ($nybble,$bin) = (substr($bin,0,4), substr($bin,4)); $nybble = eval "0b$nybble"; $hex .= substr("0123456789ABCDEF", $nybble, 1); } return $hex; } $ perl bin2hex.pl 101101110101001010010100101000101011101010101010101010 --> 2DD4A528AEAAAA 1 --> 1 10 --> 2 101 --> 5 1010 --> A 10101 --> 15 101010 --> 2A 11010011 --> D3 000000000000001 --> 0001 0001111 --> 0F 11111 --> 1F 11000011 --> C3