From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2008-05-18T12:59:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Hex to decimal?

Tim Hunter wrote:
> Since nobody else has any Ruby to talk about today... :-)
> 
> My gut feel is that this should be 2 or 3 lines of code but for some
> reason I'm missing the trick.
> 
> I need a script that converts pairs of hex digits into their decimal
> equivalents. Suppose the script accepts a single argument, a string
> composed of hex digits, either upper- or lower-case, or both, possibly
> with embedded blanks. For the sake of argument let's say that there's
> always going to be at least 1 pair but never more than, oh, 20 pairs (or
> as many as can easily be typed on a command line).
> 
> The script should remove any embedded blanks from the argument, then go
> through the string left-to-right. For each pair of hex digits, display
> the value of the pair as a 3-digit decimal number, separated with a
> backslash.
> 
> So, for example,
> 
> ruby hex2dec.rb "f0 d7e2 28" => \240\215\226\040
> 
> Ideas?


hex_str = ARGV[0]
hex_str = hex_str.delete(" ")

results = []
stop_index = hex_str.length - 2

0.step(stop_index, 2) do |i|
  decimal_num = hex_str[i,2].hex
  results << sprintf("%03d", decimal_num)
end

out_str = results.join("\\")
puts out_str


$ ruby r1test.rb "F0 d7E2 28"
240\215\226\040


-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.