Excel: ignoring 0 at start of numbers - excel

I have a list of times which i want to add to a string
0900 1730
0900 1730
1000 1700
0930 1700
i need to break these up to hours and minutes like so
09 00 17 30
09 00 17 30
10 00 17 00
09 30 17 00
to do this i am using the MID() function to get the first two characters from the cell and then the last two. But when i do this for numbers that start with 0 of have 00 it drops the first 0 like so
0930 = ",MID(B2,1,2),",",MID(B2,3,2)," output - 93 0 what i want = 09 30
0900 = ",MID(B2,1,2),",",MID(B2,3,2)," output - 90 0 what i want = 09 00
1000 = ",MID(B2,1,2),",",MID(B2,3,2)," output - 10 0 what i want = 10 00
is there a way to solve this?

You can use a mid of a pre-formatted block:
=MID(RIGHT("0000"&B2,4),1,2) =MID(RIGHT("0000"&B2,4),3,2)
This should give you two strings like 09 & 30.
If you want two numeric values you can add a value function:
=VALUE(MID(RIGHT("0000"&B2,4),1,2))

One way is place Single Quote(') before the 0 then it will store the 0930 as text in cell
and your formula will also work, No need to change in the formula.
So the value 0930 will be '0930

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modifying 2 lists and giving them scores

I want to make a output file which is simply the input file with the value of each byte incremented by one.
here is the expected output:
04 fb 56 13 21 67 68 51 e9 ac
which also will be in hexadecimal notation. I am trying to do that in python3 using the following command:

Chip EMV - Getting AFL for every smart card

Continue from: EMV Reading PAN Code
I'm working in C, so I havn't Java tools and all the functions that parse automatically the response of APDU command.
I want to read all types of smart cards.
I have to parse the response of an GET PROCESSING OPTIONS and get the AFL (Access File Locator) of every card.
I have three cards with three different situation:
A) HelloBank: 77 12 82 2 38 0 94 c 10 2 4 1 18 1 1 0 20 1 1 0 90
B) PayPal: 77 12 82 2 39 0 94 c 18 1 1 0 20 1 1 0 28 1 3 1 90
C) PostePay: 80 a 1c 0 8 1 1 0 18 1 2 0 90
Case A)
I've got three different AFL: 10 2 4 1, 18 1 1 0, 20 1 1 0
So I send 00 B2 SFI P2 00 where SFI was 10>>3 (10 was first byte of first AFL) and P2 was SFI<<3|4 and this way I got the correct PAN Code of my card.
Case B)
I've got three different AFL: 18 1 1 0, 20 1 1 0, 28 1 3 1.
So I send 00 B2 SFI P2 00 builded in the same way as Case A, but I got the response 6A 83 for every AFL.
Case C)
I've got two different AFL: 8 1 1 0, 18 1 2 0 but I cannot parse those automatically because there isn't the same TAG of previous response.
If I use those AFL it worked and I can get the PAN Code of the card.
How can I make an universal way to read the correct AFL and how can I make the correct command with those AFL?
Here is the decoding of AFL:
You will get the AFL in multiple of 4 Bytes normally. Divide your complete AFL in a chunk of 4 Bytes. Lets take an example of 1 Chunk:
AABBCCDD
AA -> SFI (Decoding is described below)
BB -> First Record under this SFI
CC -> Last Record under this SFI
DD -> Record involved for Offline Data Authentication (Not for your use for the moment)
Taking your example 10 02 04 01 18 01 01 00 20 01 10 00
Chunks are 10 02 04 01, 18 01 01 00, 20 01 10 00
10 02 04 01 -->
Taking 1st Byte 10 : 00010000 Take initial 5 bits from MSB --> 00010 means 2 : Means SFI 2
Taking 2nd Byte 02 : First Record under SFI 2 is 02
Taking 3rd Byte 04 : Last Record under SFI 2 is 04
Excluding 4 Byte explanation since no use
Summary : SFI 2 contains record 2 to 4
How Read Record command will form :
APDU structure : CLA INS P1 P2 LE
CLA 00
INS B2
P1 (Rec No)02 (SInce in this SFI 2 inital record is 02)
P2 (SFI) SFI 02 : Represent the SFI in 5 binay digit 00010 and then append 100 in the end : 00010100 : In Hex 14
So P2 is 14
LE 00
APDU to Read SFI 2 Rec 2 : 00 B2 02 14 00
APDU to Read SFI 2 Rec 3 : 00 B2 03 14 00
APDU to Read SFI 2 Rec 4 : 00 B2 04 14 00
Now if you will try to Read Rec 5, Since this Rec is not present you will get SW 6A83 in this case.
Use the same procedure for all chunk to identify the available Records and SFIs
BY this mechanisam you can write the function to parse the AFL

Perl string weirdness : equal strings being not equal?

I am using Perl v5.16.2
I am using the Net::SMPP modules and it returns me some data.
If I show this data, I get this (simplified) :
$VAR1 = bless( {
'receipted_message_id' => '400002F6E09C61701222120140',
'30' => '400002F6E09C61701222120140'
}, 'Net::SMPP::PDU' );
Now, let's assume this data is in $pdu and I do this :
$message_id = $pdu->{30}; # or $pdu->{receipted_message_id}, same result
myfunction($message_id);
Then, I have myfunction defined as :
sub myfunction {
my $message_id = shift;
my $message_id_static = '400002F6E09C61701222120140';
print Dumper($message_id);
print Dumper($message_id_static);
print hexdump($message_id);
print hexdump($message_id_static);
if ($message_id eq $message_id_static)
{
print "match\n";
}
else
{
print "no match\n";
}
}
The output of the program is :
$VAR1 = '400002F6E09C61701222120140';
$VAR1 = '400002F6E09C61701222120140';
Data::Hexdumper: data length isn't an integer multiple of lines
so has been padded with NULLs at the end.
0x0000 : 34 30 30 30 30 32 46 36 45 30 39 43 36 31 37 30 : 400002F6E09C6170
0x0010 : 31 32 32 32 31 32 30 31 34 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 : 1222120140......
Data::Hexdumper: data length isn't an integer multiple of lines
so has been padded with NULLs at the end.
0x0000 : 34 30 30 30 30 32 46 36 45 30 39 43 36 31 37 30 : 400002F6E09C6170
0x0010 : 31 32 32 32 31 32 30 31 34 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 : 1222120140......
no match
Which doesn't make any sense to me... !
If I try to use $message_id to do a SQLite query, it fails miserably. If I use $message_id_static instead, it works perfectly.
So, is this a weird internal Perl bug, or am I missing something ?
This has been driving me nuts for hours...
EDIT :
Using the perl debugger, I get this :
DB<3> x $message_id_static
0 '400002F6E09C61701222120140'
DB<4> x $message_id
0 "400002F6E09C61701222120140\c#"
So at least I see there is a difference in the strings, but why isn't it seen by the hexdump, and what is that \c# ?
Thanks !
The \c# character is Ctrl-#, which is the ASCII NUL character at code point zero
You can't see it in your hexdump output because it is indistinguishable from the 00 padding at the end of the dump
If you set $Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1 then it will be visible in the output from print Dumper $message_id
You can remove it from the variable by using s/\0\z// or tr/\0//d, but you should really investigate why it is there in the first place

Multi-records Reading APDU command structure?

I have a card support T0 protocol with an applet is installed on it. The host send a "multi-records reading" command to get records data. Records are read which are specified by record identifiers in this data field of this command. These are steps that I did:
Select DF
Send a command to read sequence of records
00 B2 00 06 16 73 0A 51 02 40 01 54 04 00 10 00 04 73 08 51 02 40 02 54 02 00 01 00
The meaning of the command is as bellow:
INS = 'B2': read record(s)
P1 = '00': references the current record (ISO 7814-4, 7.3.3, table 48)
P2 = '07' = '00000 110' :
'0000' indicate current short EF id (ISO 7814-4, 7.3.2, table 47)
'111' mean read all records from the last up to P1 (ISO 7814-4, 7.3.3, table 49)
Le = 16 : data length
Data field follow the BER-TLV, for example:
73 0A 51 02 40 01 54 04 00 10 00 04
Tag'73' indicate that sequence of bytes above consist hierarchy data object structure in data filed (length = '0A')
Tag'51' reference to 2-byte EF identifier = '40 01'
Tag'54' reference to one or more record identifiers, in this case are '00 10' and '00 04'
Le = '00'
This is expect respond from card:
53 |length of data| record data| 53| length of data| record data|......
I test this command with the card, the card return 'Unknown Error' message.
Could you tell me what is wrong with the command? Am I misunderstood at any points?
Thanks.
This cannot be answered without knowing the actual implementation. 6F00 - the status word indicating an unknown error - should only be returned when the implementation has an internal error. For Java Card implementations - for instance - the 6F00 is returned for uncaught exceptions in the process method handling the APDU's.
But just like the rest of ISO/IEC 7816-4, nothing is set in stone. It's not even defined when a specific error should be returned, so even the above is unsure. ISO/IEC 7816-4 is thoroughly useless in that regard.
Thank you for your answer. My problem is solved
Actually the return SW = 61 XY is not error message. According to ISO 7814-3 it mean:
Process completed normally (SW2 encodes N x , i.e., the number of extra data bytes still available). In cases 1 and 3, the
card should not use such a value. In cases 2 and 4, for transferring response data bytes, the card shall be ready to receive
a GET RESPONSE command with P3 set to the minimum of N x and N e .
So just need to send a GET RESPONSE command to get response data:
00 C0 00 00 XY
XY: the number of extra data bytes still available

HEX & Decimal conversion

I have a binary file , the definition of its content is as below : ( all data is stored
in little endian (ie. least significant byte first)) . The example numbers below are HEX
11 63 39 46 --- Time, UTC in seconds since 1 Jan 1970.
01 00 --- 0001 = No Fix, 0002 = SPS
97 85 ff e0 7b db 4c 40 --- Latitude, as double
a1 d5 ce 56 8d 26 28 40 --- Longitude, as double
f0 37 e1 42 --- Height in meters, as float
fe 2b f0 3a --- Speed in km/h, as float
00 00 00 00 --- Heading (degrees ?), as float
01 00 --- RCR, log reason. 0001=Time, 0004=Distance
59 20 6a f3 4a 26 e3 3f --- Distance in meters, as double,
2a --- ? Don't know
a8 --- Checksum, xor of all bytes above not including 0x2a
the data from the Binary file "in HEX" is as below
"F25D39460200269652F5032445401F4228D79BCC54C09A3A2743B4ADE73F2A83"
I appreciate if you can support me to translate this data line based on the instruction before.
Probably wrong, but here's a shot at it using Ruby:
hex = "F25D39460200269652F5032445401F4228D79BCC54C09A3A2743B4ADE73F2A83"
ints = hex.scan(/../).map{ |s| s.to_i(16) }
raw = ints.pack('C*')
fields = raw.unpack( 'VvEEVVVvE')
p fields
#=> [1178164722, 2, 42.2813707974677, -83.1970117467067, 1126644378, 1072147892, nil, 33578, nil]
p Time.at( fields.first )
#=> 2007-05-02 21:58:42 -0600
I'd appreciate it if someone well-versed in #pack and #unpack would show me a better way to accomplish the first three lines.
My Cygnus Hex Editor could load such a file and, using structure templates, display the data in its native formats.
Beyond that, it's just a matter of doing through each value and working out the translation for each byte.

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