If I understand your question correctly, wouldn't it make sense to do the following?

$ echo 123.45.67.890 | perl -ne 'for $x(1..3){/(\d+)/g; printf "%X", $
+1}'
7B2D43
[download]

The $x is there just to prevent $_ from being overwritten.

Cheers,
Ovid

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