Re: How do I convert hex numbers to decimal ?

[Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com>]

bolega wrote:
> I have a bunch of related questions, but the solution is desired in
> emacs lisp and to work inside emacs only.

So why post to comp.unix.shell then?

(Using printf is a shell way of doing what you want.)

> 
> 1) How do I convert hex numbers to decimal ?
> 2) How do I convert ascii to the character that it represents, short
> of a table ? Any function or simpler algorithm ?
> 3) What are the variables and how to set their values ?
> 
> read-quoted-char-radix
> quoted-char-radix
> 
> 4) How do i find the emacs lisp code for C-x = to see how it gives the
> ascii of the char at the cursor and then use to find the reverse, ie
> ascii to char ?
> 
> Thanks a lot to the star who can explain.