Converting numeric IP address to hex

Small function to convert numeric IP address to hex. For example, 255.255.255.0 becomes 0xffffff0.

sub ip2hex{    
    return "0x" . join ("", map {sprintf "%x", $_} split(/\./,shift));
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}
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Re: Converting numeric IP address to hex by AltBlue (Chaplain) on Jan 27, 2001 at 05:45 UTC
are there too much of splits,map,joins? :) `s/(\d+)/sprintf "%02X",$1/eg` -- AltBlue.	[reply]
Re: Re: Converting numeric IP address to hex by Coyote (Deacon) on Jan 27, 2001 at 07:04 UTC
Ah, but they've been so good to me. ---- Coyote	[reply]