Method to take a Hex color value, such as FF9944, turn it to Decimal, chop down the color by X, and return the new color in Hex, as seen in my Scratchpad.
sub downhex {
 # Coded by: Kage (Kage@DBXML.com) http://ss.dbmxl.com
 # Copyright (C) 2002-2005 Kage, All Rights Reserved.
 my ($hexcolor, $degrade) = @_;
 my (@rgbarray, $digitcounter, $coltemp, $rgblowcount, $collabel, $pac
+kout, $coltemp2, $hexvalue);
 $hexcolor =~ s/\#//;
 for ($digitcounter=0; $digitcounter<3; $digitcounter++) {
  $coltemp = substr($hexcolor, 2*$digitcounter, 2);
  $rgbarray[$digitcounter] = (16 * hex(substr($coltemp, 0, 1)) + hex(s
+ubstr($coltemp, 1, 1)));
 }
 for ($rgblowcount=0; $rgblowcount<3; $rgblowcount++) {
  if ($rgbarray[$rgblowcount] >= $degrade) {
   $rgbarray[$rgblowcount] = ($rgbarray[$rgblowcount] - $degrade);
  }
 }
 foreach $collabel (@rgbarray) {
  if (($collabel >= 0) && ($collabel <= 255)) {
   $packout = pack "c", $collabel;
   $collabel = unpack "H2", $packout;
   if (length($collabel) < 2) {
    $collabel = "0".$collabel;
   }
   $coltemp2 .= $collabel;
  } else {
   $coltemp2 = "";
   break; # Optional, though it won't work in Strict
  }
 }
 if (length($coltemp2) == 6) {
  $hexvalue = "#".$coltemp2;
 }
 return uc($hexvalue);
}

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