Converting a string with a hexadecimal representation of a number to an actual numeric value

Question

I have a string like this:

\"00c4\"

And I need to convert it to the numeric value that would be expressed by the literal:

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Answer 1

There is no such thing as an 'actual hex value'. Once you get into the native datatypes you are in binary. Getting there from a hex string is covered above. Showing it as output in hex, ditto. But it isn't an 'actual hex value'. It's just binary.