Question about reading hex data

Hello! I am a Labview Novice and having a problem about reading hex data.
Basically I am having bytes from the serial port like this: "80100E0E0AB4F646F24A00911267087E032080057FFF "
It is not encoded in ASCII. What I want to do is to convert the hex to an ASCII hex string.
so that the string would become hex numbers in ASCII.
I think the following might be a solution, but I have no idea what the subvi is in the solution.
http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Hex-String-to-Ascii-Hex-String/m-p/886078/highlight/true#M400462
Thanks in advance and I appreciate your kind help!
Solved!
Go to Solution.

coolmatthew wrote:
What I want to do is actually this.
You are using way too much code for all this. All you need is a concatenate strings, replacing your entire loop and such. Same result.
(see also)
LabVIEW Champion . Do more with less code and in less time .
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