Ah. OK. Is the string always two chars long?

$number = hex("0x". reverse $string);
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(please don't take this suggestion seriously)

"The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club."
-- Chip Salzenberg

I think you need to do some reading. reverse doesn't work how you think either... reverse "ab" is "ab" ... sorry.

Er... the result of reverse "ab" varies according to the context it is evaluated in. The concaternation operator evaluates it in scalar context.

$ perl -le 'print "0x" . reverse "ab"'
0xba
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I'm not saying my solution is a good idea, but I do know how reverse works :)

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perl -e '$i = hex("0x6801"); print sprintf("\%x", $i), "\n"'
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