c++ - Getting hex through Cin

Question

Why doesn't this code work?

int x;
cin >> x;

With the input of 0x1a I get that x == 0 and not 26.

Why's that?

Answer 1

I believe in order to use hex you need to do something like this:

cin >> hex >> x;
cout << hex << x; 

you can also replace hex with dec and oct etc.