Re: number bases

["Brett Bibby" <research@...>]

Doh! How did I miss that in the manual?  Just what I was looking for.
Thanks.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philippe Lhoste" <PhiLho@gmx.net>
To: <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: number bases


> > Is there any way to specify numeric constants in any base other than
10?
> > Specifically I want to specify numbers in hexidecimal format such as
> > 0x00a012b3.  Is there any way to do this?
>
> Take a look a the tonumber function, it already have what you need.
Just
> drop the prefix before calling the
> function (but perhaps use it to compute the base).
>
> Regards.
>
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