From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-09-10T04:23:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading in Hex numbers.

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From: <dblack@candle.superlink.net>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: Reading in Hex numbers.


> > 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...)

:) :)

I *knew* you would pick up on that, David.

I think adding binary to scanf is fine as long as
we don't run out of alphabet. I.e., assuming %b is
the logical choice and it doesn't already mean 
something that we're likely to implement in the
future.

Hal