in reply to how to convert latin alphabets to hexadecimal number

In your format string, you use double quotes with an unescaped backslash. Change line 13 to printf ('\u%X ', ord($_)); to get your desired output.

A little cleaner might be to swap lines 13 and 14 to printf "\\u%X\n\n", ord;

Better still, of course, is to use a package to do interpolation, as the other comments suggest, or actually encode your inputs and outputs properly (perlunitut).

#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

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