Is there a standard way to parse hex strings into numbers?

[Brad Anderson]

On Monday, 24 March 2014 at 16:30:37 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> Is there a standard way to parse hex strings into numbers?
>
> I have the following returned as a string:
>
>     0xffffffffac036f90
>
> Is there a standard way to parse this into a ulong or do you 
> just roll your own?

To accepts a radix parameter. You need to strip off the 0x though.

"ffffffffac036f90".to!ulong(16) -> 18446744072300490640