use warnings FATAL => 'all'; use strict; for ( qw( 00 1010 1110 010001 01101011 ), '1' x 33, '0101' x 16 ) { my $h = b2h($_); print "$_ $h width=", length($_), "\n"; } exit; sub b2h { my $num = shift; my $WIDTH = 32; my $index = length($num) - $WIDTH; my $hex = ''; do { my $width = $WIDTH; if ($index < 0) { $width += $index; $index = 0; } my $cut_string = substr($num, $index, $width); $hex = sprintf('%X', oct("0b$cut_string")) . $hex; $index -= $WIDTH; } while ($index > (-1 * $WIDTH)); return $hex; } __END__ Output: 00 0 width=2 1010 A width=4 1110 E width=4 010001 11 width=6 01101011 6B width=8 111111111111111111111111111111111 1FFFFFFFF width=33 0101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101 5555555555555555 width=64