From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-05-18T05:40:25+09:00
Subject: dude, hex to decimal

Tim Hunter wrote:
> ruby hex2dec.rb "f0 d7e2 28" => \240\215\226\040

def hex2dec hex
   [hex.delete(" ")].pack("H*").unpack("C*").map {|n| "\\%03d" % n}.join
end

puts hex2dec("f0 d7e2 28") # ==> \240\215\226\040
puts hex2dec("d00de")      # ==> \208\013\224

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