From: Mike Stok <mike@...>
Date: 2004-05-07T01:09:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Working in hex

"Mark Probert" <probertm@nortelnetworks.com> writes:


> 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.

val = sprintf("0x%x", 0xe8b8 + 4 * 110)

is one way to do it or

val = "0x" + (0xe8b8 + 4 * 110).to_s(16)

Hope this helps (and isn't too ugly :-)

Mike

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