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From: danj1@cbnewse.ATT.COM (Dan Jacobson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Hex input to awk
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Date: 17 Jan 90 19:59:57 GMT
Reply-To: danj1@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Dan Jacobson)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville IL, USA
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What's the easy way to read in hexidecimal numbers in [n]awk?  There's no
scanf function.  Outputting them is no problem (printf, OFMT).  But what
if you have a input file like:
Burgers	04ff
Wax	2d3f
I hope I don't have to write a function.
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Dan Jacobson +1-708-979-6364 danj1@ihlpa.ATT.COM