From: "Jeff Pinyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On May 10, Paul Cotter said:
>
> >What combination of sprintf/pack/upack/asc/hex/xyz.pm etc will allow me
> >to convert a string in to a string hex equivalent. I dare say, in Perl's
> >little quirks there is an arcane subroutine called something like dtcnvx
> >that does just what I want...
>
> Sadly, the oct() and hex() functions are poorly named; they should be
> from_oct() and from_hex(). You want to use sprintf().
>
> $as_hex = sprintf "%x", $num;
> $as_hex = sprintf "%#x", $num; # adds a leading "0x"
Unfortunately this does not work if we have $str rather then $num if you see what I
mean.
printf ( "%#x" , 'abc' ) #gives Argument "abc" isn't numeric in printf at...
If I can just re-iterate my original request:
print dtcnvx('Ab c') # gives 41622063
However, it is interestingto note that the following code:
print my $s = sprintf ("%#x \n" , 'abc');
printf ("%#x \n" , 'abc');
Gives the following output:
0
Argument "abc" isn't numeric in printf at diet.pl line 397.
0
Regards - Paul Cotter
