From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-09-10T00:55:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading in Hex numbers.

Hi --

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, 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?

For hex and octal you could use scanf
(http://www.rubyhacker.com/code/scanf), though the more general
solution of Integer might be better if you're also doing binary.
(Hmmm... binary in scanf... hmmm...)


David

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