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Posted by Kimmo Laine on 12/23/05 17:52
"Erwin Moller"
<since_humans_read_this_I_am_spammed_too_much@spamyourself.com> kirjoitti
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> Kimmo Laine wrote:
>
>> "somaboy mx" <nosuch@fakemail.fk> wrote in message
>> news:dogh7t$67r$1@domitilla.aioe.org...
>>> Is there a built-in PHP function that lets you convert integers to
>>> hexadecimal values?
>>> For example 255 to FF.
>>
>> Yes there is, dechex().
>>
>>> Couldn't find any in the manual.
>>
>> Have you ever seen a movie called Barry Lyndon? There's this beautiful
>> scene right in the beginning, this is how the dialogue goes:
>>
>> Nora: "I have hidden my neck ribbon somewhere on my person. If you find
>> it, you can have it. You are free to look anywhere for it. I will think
>> little of you if you do not find it."
>> Barry: "I cannot find it."
>> - "You haven't looked properly."
>> - "I cannot find it."
>> - "I'll give you a hint."
>> - "I feel the ribbon."
>> - "Why are you trembling?"
>> - "At the pleasure of finding the ribbon."
>> - "Liar."
>>
>> Nora hid the ribbon between her breasts. Barry looked for it only from
>> her
>> hands, failing to find it. as Nora says "I'll give you a hint", she takes
>> Barry's hand to here bosom, and Barry eventually finds the ribbon.
>>
>> In a way, you resemble Barry, who was so reluctant to look for the answer
>> while it was practically right under his nose. Was it courtesy, shyness
>> or
>> plain stupidity? We shall never know. If you get a chance to watch Barry
>> Lyndon, I recommend you to do so, it is a masterpiece by Stanley Kubrick.
>>
>
> LOL. :-)
>
> Kimmo, that is the funniest version of the famous RTFM I ever saw. :-)
>
RTFM is just so impersonal... :)
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