Re: I need Hex conversion, not!

[blue_cowdawg]

I need to use hex numbers for something but when I assign hex number to something

Your point is...?

If you want to print as hex you need to use the format string as you show in your second example...

printf("0x%02X",$SM);

If you don't want to do that "everywhere" you can always create a sub such that:

| hand waving here...

my $n = 0x85;
printf "and the majic number is: %s\n",as_hex($n);


| more handwaving
exit(0);


sub as_hex{
    my $x=shift;
    sprintf "%X",$x;
}