Comparing Hex Numbers in Strings.

Hi,

I'm trying to sort a file according to a hexa value that appears in every line.

Since I don't remember how to convert hex2int, I tried and noticed that this works:

$val1= "0x0A"; $val2=10;

if ($val1 == $val2) {print "OK";}



So, I tried to use just a simple compare as the above (hexa against integer, with no conversions) in my script that sorts the file.

But here I encountered this problem: $1 does not get the whole meaning of the string in brackets. What do I mean? look at the next lines, they should have worked but they don't:

$val1=10; $val2="this line contains the value 0x0A";

if ($val2 =~ /the value (0x\w)/)

{if ($val1 == $1) {print "OK";}}



This did not work!!

Just to show that the problem is with the $1 interpretation, I printed out to the screen the content of $1 and it printed out correctly: 0x0A.

Can someone explain this to me?



Thanks

Roni

roniz5@yahoo.com

re: Comparing Hex Numbers in Strings.

re: Comparing Hex Numbers in Strings.

see:

http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/hex.html

and:

http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/oct.html

re: Comparing Hex Numbers in Strings.

More precisely and therefore robust would be:
Greetz, Doc

re: Comparing Hex Numbers in Strings.

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Thanks a lot, it works!
And thank you also for the link to the relevant info.

Roni

re: Comparing Hex Numbers in Strings.

Thanks you very much, I will use the /i - you saved me a future bug...

Roni