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. -- Dan Jacobson +1-708-979-6364 danj1 at ihlpa.ATT.COM