I am trying to convert some characters into hex using tcl.
And i would usually do something like this: [binary format a* 'o'] that return 111, which is the int representation of 'o' that can then be converted.
However the way that i retrive the character, [value string_split] returns "o" instead of 'o' cuasing the the function to throw an error, esentially like doing: [binary format a* "o"] which returns "ERROR: Nothing is named "o""
So, what is the difference between "o" and 'o' in a tcl context and how can i get my [binary format a* [value string_split]] call to return 111 like [binary format a* 'o'] would do.
It should be noted that i am using TheFoundry's Nuke to do this and I don't know exactly what version of TCL they are using, but it is a rather old one.
You can use scan with a format of %c to get the Unicode codepoint value of a character, and then format to print it as hex:
#!/usr/bin/env tclsh
set o_str o
scan $o_str %c o_value
puts $o_value ;# 111
puts [format 0x%x $o_value] ;# 0x6f