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- Subject: Re: Converting dec to hex issues
- From: Drake Wilson <drake@...>
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:04:53 -0700
Quoth Marcin Jurczuk <mjurczuk@gmail.com>, on 2010-11-18 18:44:54 +0100:
> > print("Original value: " .. os.time() .. " Decimal base conversion: " .. tonumber(os.time(),10) .. " Hex version: " .. tonumber(os.time(),16))
That's backwards. You're saying "convert this result, first converted
implicitly into a string, into a number as though the digits were base
16", so you're asking for the numeric value of 0x1290102177.
You probably want string.format('%x', os.time()).
---> Drake Wilson
