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Subtraction v Hex2Dec in vbscript

Lets say I had to iterate through a loop of 1000 rows of a text file and at each row I had to take a value and do one of the following:
1) If the value were a decimal value with 6 digits, subtract 100,000 from the value
2) If the value were a hex value, convert it to decimal.

Which would be quicker/use fewer resources?

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Thanks everyone. Here is more information: I time races 5k, marathon, trithlons, etc) and I encode my own RFID tags. I have to make sure that there is little or no reasonable chance of conflicting with things like rfid tags that are put into shoes, etc. However, ultimately I have to have decimal numbers to work with. So the two options I have landed on are these:

1) I could encode the tags using 6 decimal digits (I have never seen a six-digit decimal rfid value come through my system). For instance, rfid tag 100001 would be used for bib #1, rfid tag 100002 would go on bib #2, etc. Then I just loop through and subtract 100000 from each tag before processing the results.

2) I could encode the tags using hex numbers and just convert to decimal prior to processing the results.

I prefer the first method because it is human-readable but it is even more important to process quickly.

Thanks for any additional clarity you can provide. I will look at the above links, code, suggestions, ...

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