in reply to convert hex string to hex number

Use the hex() function to convert the string it to an integer. It even conveniently ignores the 0x prefix.

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Re^2: convert hex string to hex number
by Narveson (Chaplain) on Jul 02, 2008 at 22:03 UTC

    Or since you know your string starts with 0x, you can eval it.

    my $hex = '0x3cb37140';
my $num = eval $hex;    # 1018392896

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