On Apr 16, 5:20 pm, Jack Bauer <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Frederick Cheung wrote:

>
> Yes, but it doesn't convert it the way I need it to. What I mean is:
>
> "FFFFFF".to_i(base=16) # => 16777215
>
> I need it to be more like this:
>
> "FFFFFF".whatever_magic_method # => 0xFFFFFF

Those are exactly the same integer - the console just shows them to
you in base 10 by default. to_s takes a similar base argument if you
need to get a string out of it again.

Fred

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