# Hexadecimal Formats

This can be used in two ways – one is to assign a fixed length random hexadecimal value to a field, and the other is to transform an assigned field to a hexadecimal value.

The usage is fairly simple. 

<table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th valign="top"></th><th valign="top"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td valign="top">EXAMPLE</td><td valign="top">RESULT</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">%HEX|4</td><td valign="top"><p>a random hexadecimal string with the given size:</p><p>"414d"</p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">%HEX</td><td valign="top"><p>a hexadecimal string from the current value of the attribute:</p><p>eg. with "some" as current value:</p><p>"736f6d65"</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

#### Assign a random hexadecimal value

#### Convert an assigned value to hexadecimal


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