Note that pack/unpack were not useful in converting from hex to decimal (unlike most people seem to think) but were used here to convert from unsiged to signed-short.

Also, sprintf isn't useful for converting from hex to decimal but is the proper choice for going the other direction.

Update: Ah, thanks merlyn; I didn't think of that way to use pack/unpack to convert hex to decimal. To convert without having to worry about little-/big-endian issues gets rather complicated when using pack/unpack and signed values: 

my $hex= "FFAA";
my $signed= unpack "s", pack "S", unpack "v", pack "H*", $hex;

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and it gets even more complicated if you want to handle different numbers of hex digits: 
my $hex= "ABC";
my $unsigned= unpack "V", pack "h*", "".reverse "00000000".$hex;
my $signed= unpack "l", pack "L", unpack "V", pack "h*",
    "".reverse(  ( $hex=~/^[89a-f]/i ? "F" : "0" ) x 8 . $hex  );

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In reply to (tye)Re2: Hex to decimal by tye
in thread Hex to decimal by Ras

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