From: Mike Stok <mike@...>
Date: 2002-09-09T22:51:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading in Hex numbers.

In article <9ba6a8da.0209090511.35a87842@posting.google.com>, Khurram wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to read in a file that has hex numbers, which are stored with
> the "0x" hex prefix (i.e. 0x12345678).  Is there a built in function
> that will do the conversion, similiar to "to_i", for hex numbers?
> 
> Also... is there something also for binary?  Octal?  

You can use Integer on a string e.g.

irb(main):001:0> Integer('0xE84C')
59468
irb(main):002:0> Integer('040')
32
irb(main):003:0> Integer('0b1011')
11

Hope this helps,

Mike

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