On May 10, Paul Cotter said:
>What combination of sprintf/pack/upack/asc/hex/xyz.pm etc will allow me
>to convert a string in to a string hex equivalent. I dare say, in Perl's
>little quirks there is an arcane subroutine called something like dtcnvx
>that does just what I want...
Sadly, the oct() and hex() functions are poorly named; they should be
from_oct() and from_hex(). You want to use sprintf().
$as_hex = sprintf "%x", $num;
$as_hex = sprintf "%#x", $num; # adds a leading "0x"
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