How to effectively use the BitVector Module In Perl to find the XOR of two numbers?

Question

I am having trouble figuring out how to effectively use the BitVector module in Perl to find the Exclusive Or (XOR) of two numbers in hexadecimal form.

This is my whole code:

use Bit::Vector;
$bits = Bit::Vector->Word_Bits();  #  bits in a machine word

print "This program will take two numbers and will return the XOR of the two numbers.\n";

print "Enter the first number in hexadecimal form:\n";
$firstHexNumber = <STDIN>;
$vector = Bit::Vector->new($bits, $firstHexNumber);  #  bit vector constructor

print "Enter the second number in hexadecimal form:\n";
$secondHexNumber = <STDIN>;
$vector2 = Bit::Vector->new($bits, $secondHexNumber);  #  bit vector constructor

$vector3 = Bit::Vector->new($bits);  #  bit vector constructor
$vector3->Xor($vector,$vector2);

print $vector3;

I am not sure if I am doing the syntax right for the BitVector module. If I try to run it, I get an output like this. Output

When I input 1 and 16 as my arguments, the output is supposed to be 17. Please help me see what's wrong with my code to get the output correct. Thank you.

Answer 1

You can use new_Hex() and to_Hex():

use strict;
use warnings;
use Bit::Vector;
my $bits = Bit::Vector->Word_Bits();  #  bits in a machine word
my $firstHexNumber = "1";
my $vector = Bit::Vector->new_Hex($bits, $firstHexNumber); 
my $secondHexNumber = "17";
my $vector2 = Bit::Vector->new_Hex($bits, $secondHexNumber);
my $vector3 = Bit::Vector->new($bits);  #  bit vector constructor
$vector3->Xor($vector,$vector2);
print $vector3->to_Hex;

Output:

0000000000000016