Ascii to hex?

[Bert]

How do I convert an ascii to hex? I want the hex stored in a variable, not
just printed out.
For example,
my testchars = 'CICS003'
How do I store that value in hexchars?
I know this is basic, but it eludes me...
Thanks from a newbie.

[Purl Gurl]

Re: Ascii to hex?

Bert wrote:

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> How do I convert an ascii to hex?[/color]

Have you considered research and reading?

My experience is learning is not painful.
However, lazy people are a pain.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=convert+ascii+to+hex+perl

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--
Size Does Matter

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#!perl

@Hex = unpack("C*", "Purl Gurl Rocks");

print "@Hex\n";

$ascii = pack("C*", @Hex);

print $ascii;

[Roy Johnson]

Re: Ascii to hex?

"Bert" <grapesoda71@ho tmail.com> wrote in message news:<cf4hb.607 53$k17.27867@bi gnews5.bellsout h.net>...[color=blue]
> How do I convert an ascii to hex?[/color]

/opt/perl/bin/perldoc -q convert

[Jim Gibson]

Re: Ascii to hex?

In article <cf4hb.60753$k1 7.27867@bignews 5.bellsouth.net >, Bert
<grapesoda71@ho tmail.com> wrote:
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> How do I convert an ascii to hex? I want the hex stored in a variable, not
> just printed out.
> For example,
> my testchars = 'CICS003'
> How do I store that value in hexchars?
> I know this is basic, but it eludes me...
> Thanks from a newbie.
>
>[/color]

You can use ord to get the numerical value of an ascii character and
sprintf "%x" to generate the hexadecimal representation of that number:

#!/opt/perl/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $testchars = 'CICS003';
my $hexchars = '';
foreach my $c (split(//,$testchars)) {
$hexchars .= sprintf "%x", ord($c);
}
print "$hexchars\ n";

__OUTPUT__
43494353303033

FYI: this newsgroup is defunct. Try comp.lang.perl. misc in the future.

[Bert]

Re: Ascii to hex? Thank you

Thank you all for your help. A newbie is smarter for your efforts. Thank
you.


"Bert" <grapesoda71@ho tmail.com> wrote in message
news:cf4hb.6075 3$k17.27867@big news5.bellsouth .net...[color=blue]
> How do I convert an ascii to hex? I want the hex stored in a variable, not
> just printed out.
> For example,
> my testchars = 'CICS003'
> How do I store that value in hexchars?
> I know this is basic, but it eludes me...
> Thanks from a newbie.
>
>[/color]