Decimal to Hexadecimal conversion - The Tcl programming language

Posted by enquirer (enquirer), 20 September 2004

How do you use 'format' to get a hex number from a decimal value (I have done it the long way by writing a procedure which seems a bit silly)

Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 20 September 2004

Use the format command, the %x formatter. Here's an interactive example:

% set num 20
20
% puts [format %x $num]
14
%

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