Hex to Octal (3 digit) converer

[Philip Lord]

Don…what have you go me into!


> On May 5, 2015, at 2:07 PM, Ian S. King <isking at uw.edu> wrote:
> 
> But now he has Perl on his computer.  Eww.
> 
> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:12 AM, Philip Lord <philip at neoncluster.com> wrote:
> 
>> Perfect…seems to work great!
>> 
>> Thanks!!!
>> 
>>> On May 4, 2015, at 7:54 PM, Don North <north at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 5/4/2015 12:23 AM, Philip Lord wrote:
>>>> Thanks again, I’ve never used Perl either, but I just installed it.
>>>> 
>>>> So I saved your script as a textfile called HEX_OCTAL.pl:
>>>> 
>>>> perl -n -e 'print join(" ",map(sprintf("%03o",hex($_)),split("
>> ")))."\n";'
>>>> 
>>>> But unfortunately I get the following error when I try to run it:
>>>> 
>>>> syntax error at /Users/Philip/perl5/perlbrew/Perl_tests/HEX_OCTAL.pl
>> line 1, near "n -e "
>>>> Execution of /Users/Philip/perl5/perlbrew/Perl_tests/HEX_OCTAL.pl
>> aborted due to compilation errors.
>>>> 
>>>> Not sure what I’m doing wrong…being a noob, it could be anything!
>>>> 
>>>> Phil
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> There are two ways to resolve this.
>>> 
>>> First, you just put the command line I gave you into a shell script file
>> (call it conv.sh):
>>> 
>>>   #!/bin/bash
>>>   perl -n -e 'print join(" ",map(sprintf("%03o",hex($_)),split("
>> ")))."\n";'
>>> 
>>> Then just type './conv.sh' on the command line to run in interactive
>> mode, or './conv.sh < test.dat' to source data from a file test.dat.
>>> 
>>> Or, second, to turn the perl one-liner into a real perl program, it
>> needs to be this (call it conv.pl):
>>> 
>>>   #!/usr/bin/perl
>>>   while (<>) { print join(" ",map(sprintf("%03o",hex($_)),split("
>> ")))."\n"; }
>>>   exit;
>>> 
>>> then you can run this in the same way as above, except type './conv.pl'
>> or './conv.pl < test.dat'
>>> 
>>> Don
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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