Well , i just wanted to say a big THANKS!!!
to Joshua for the solution,
and Jack for posting up this problem which was the same as i was
facing..
This post came up when i googled for it. And the solution mentioned
above solved my problem..
Thanks a ton!! to both of you :)
Joshua Ball wrote in post #806177:
> Jack Bauer wrote:
>
>> I need it to be more like this:
>>
>> "FFFFFF".whatever_magic_method # => 0xFFFFFF
>
> I think at this point, the issue is that you need to deal with how to
> display the integer, not conver ti.
> "FF".to_i(16) produces the INTEGER: 255 which is the same as 0xFF.
>
> So, if you want to display the INTEGER 255 as hex, use either printf
> "0x%0x" or to_s(16). For instance:
>
> Ruby code:
> s = "0xFF"
> puts "Convert string [#{s}] to an integer:"
> n = s.to_i(16)
> puts "normal puts: #{n}"
> printf "printf in hex: 0x%x\n", n
> puts "using to_s(16): #{n.to_s(16)}"
>
> Outputs:
> Convert string [0xFF] to an integer:
> normal puts: 255
> printf in hex: 0xff
> using to_s(16): ff
>
> Hope that helps.
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