From 2c6554a435cd03bfe7e7756f64cd273a362e938a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: batrick <batrick@e0a8ed71-7df4-0310-8962-fdc924857419>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 02:24:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Updated stdnse.tohex() to coerce strings to numbers if
 possible for the first argument. That is, the first argument is interpretted
 as a number if possible.

---
 nselib/stdnse.lua | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/nselib/stdnse.lua b/nselib/stdnse.lua
index 2354c5b49..fb65846e3 100644
--- a/nselib/stdnse.lua
+++ b/nselib/stdnse.lua
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ function tohex( s, options )
   local separator = options.separator
   local hex
 
-  if type( s ) == 'number' then
+  if tonumber( s ) then
     hex = ("%x"):format(s)
   elseif type( s ) == 'string' then
     hex = ("%02x"):rep(#s):format(s:byte(1,#s))