Re: Converting dec to hex issues

[Marcin Jurczuk <mjurczuk@...>]

On 18 November 2010 19:04, Drake Wilson <drake@begriffli.ch> wrote:
> 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()).
>

Of course you are right :)
Thanks



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Marcin,