Re: getting wrong value

[johngg]

You need sprintf to assign to a scalar. You are getting the value 1 in your $line2 variable as that is what is returned by the successful printf that displays on your screen.

$ perl -E '
> my $line = 55743;
> my $line2 = sprintf q{%#x}, $line;
> say $line2;'
0xd9bf
$

I hope this is helpful.