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[Andreas Schwab]

Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> writes:

|> Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu> writes:
|> 
|> > A better way to read hex numbers in awk would be appreciated.
|> 
|> You should talk to Aharon Robbins, the GNU awk author.  Maybe he has a
|> proposal.  If there is a GNU awk extension one could use it.

awk only knows about decimal numbers, because every number is a floating
point number, and other bases don't fit here.  GNU awk isn't different.  I
don't think there is a better way.

Andreas.