perlquestion Anonymous Monk <p>Hello,</p> <p>I need to use hex numbers for something but when I assign hex number to something, it prints out as decimal. I do not want that and I do not want to waste my code as re-convertion </p> <code> $SM = 0xFE; print $SM, "\n" ; #it prints out 254 #but of course if I write it like this; printf("0x%02X",$SM); #it prints out 0xFE </code> <p>I want to use many variables like $SM, so I dont want to write "0x%02X", etc. everywhere. I need direct output in hex, or even better, only hex part like, FE, so what should I do ? </p> 5