June 2002
Beginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
hex
hex hexnum
Converts a hexadecimal string
hexnum into its equivalent decimal
value. If hexnum is omitted, it
interprets $_. The following
code sets $number to
4,294,906,560:
$number = hex("ffff12c0");To do the inverse function, use:
sprintf "%lx", $number; # That's a letter 'l', not a one