=head1 NAME
-perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.7 $, $Date: 2001/10/26 19:46:03 $)
+perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.8 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
optimized for speed on some operations, and for at least some
programmers the notation might be familiar.
+=over 4
+
=item B<How do I convert Hexadecimal into decimal:>
Using perl's built in conversion of 0x notation:
$int = 0xDEADBEEF;
$dec = sprintf("%d", $int);
-
+
Using the hex function:
$int = hex("DEADBEEF");
The remaining transformations (e.g. hex -> oct, bin -> hex, etc.)
are left as an exercise to the inclined reader.
+=back
=head2 Why doesn't & work the way I want it to?
=head2 How can I use a reference as a hash key?
-You can't do this directly, but you could use the standard Tie::Refhash
+You can't do this directly, but you could use the standard Tie::RefHash
module distributed with Perl.
=head1 Data: Misc