From: Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...>
Date: 2004-05-07T00:49:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Working in hex

What about:

irb(main):001:0> val = 0xe8b8 + (4 * 110)
=> 60016
irb(main):002:0> val.to_s(16)
=> "ea70"

I think you are confused between the internal representation of a number
and its text representation.

Guillaume.

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 11:31, Mark Probert wrote:
> 
> Hello, rubyists.
> 
> I need to do the following:
> 
>   val = 0xe8b8 + (4 * 110).hex
>       = 0xe8b8 + 1b8
>       = 0xea70
> 
> Is there an easy way in Ruby of doing this?
> I need to have the result in hex.
> 
> -mark.