[Feature Request] Parsing hexadecimal numbers

[Kaweees]

I would love to have the ability to specify pass in hexadecimal value(s) as arguments and have them be parsed as decimal values

[alexflint]

Hey @Kaweees , just to confirm, do you mean you would write code like this:

var args struct {
  X int
}
arg.MustParse(&args)

and then on the command line you would write ./myprogram --x 0xFF and x would get the value 255? Seems very reasonable to me.

[Kaweees]

Yes, that would be splendid. It would be nice if it would default to interpreting a decimal number if the number is unable to be parsed as a hexadecmial number.

[alexflint]

Well I think this already works!

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/alexflint/go-arg"
)

func main() {
    var args struct {
        X int
    }
    arg.MustParse(&args)

    fmt.Println(args.X)
}

$ go run *.go --x 0xFF
255
$ go run *.go --x 123
123

[alexflint]

Going to close this for now.