I built upon sgifford's code. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

my $hex = "0xb400189"; # the 0x is optional since we call hex later
my $octet = hex2octet($hex);
print $octet, "\n";

$hex = octet2hex($octet);
print $hex, "\n";

sub hex2octet {
  my $hex = shift;
  my @octet = unpack("C4", pack("N", hex $hex));
  return sprintf "%x.%x.%x.%x", reverse @octet;
}

sub octet2hex {
  my $octet = shift;
  my @octet = map { hex } split /\./, $octet;
  my $hex = unpack("N", pack("C4", reverse @octet));
  return sprintf "%x", $hex;
}

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Hex to Octet by Mr. Muskrat
in thread Hex to Octet by Anonymous Monk

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