[comp.unix.questions] Hex input to awk

danj1@cbnewse.ATT.COM (Dan Jacobson) (01/18/90)

What's the easy way to read in hexidecimal numbers in [n]awk?  There's no
scanf function.  Outputting them is no problem (printf, OFMT).  But what
if you have a input file like:
Burgers	04ff
Wax	2d3f
I hope I don't have to write a function.
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