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Input validation for built-in hex function

by toolic (Chancellor)
on Aug 30, 2012 at 17:04 UTC ( #990798=perlmeditation: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??

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  1. or download this
    perl -w -E "say hex(q{x})"
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  2. or download this
    perl -w -E "say hex(q{t})"
Illegal hexadecimal digit 't' ignored at -e line 1.
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  3. or download this
    sub hex2 {
    my $str = shift;
...
        die "hex2: No chars found after stripping leading 0x or x";
    }
}

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