From 2eaf153ce4b09a540d56b4583030e1192b2afdf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Ramsey <ben@benramsey.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:37:51 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add the getHex() method

---
 src/Rhumsaa/Uuid/Uuid.php | 20 ++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Rhumsaa/Uuid/Uuid.php b/src/Rhumsaa/Uuid/Uuid.php
index 99a10a0..a130d75 100644
--- a/src/Rhumsaa/Uuid/Uuid.php
+++ b/src/Rhumsaa/Uuid/Uuid.php
@@ -231,11 +231,8 @@ final class Uuid
     {
         $bytes = '';
 
-        $hex = $this->toString();
-        $hex = str_replace('-', '', $hex);
-
         foreach (range(-2, -32, 2) as $step) {
-            $bytes = chr(hexdec(substr($hex, $step, 2))) . $bytes;
+            $bytes = chr(hexdec(substr($this->getHex(), $step, 2))) . $bytes;
         }
 
         return $bytes;
@@ -423,6 +420,16 @@ final class Uuid
         return $this->fields;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Returns the hexadecimal value of the UUID
+     *
+     * @return string
+     */
+    public function getHex()
+    {
+        return str_replace('-', '', $this->toString());
+    }
+
     /**
      * Returns the integer value of the UUID, represented as a BigNumber
      *
@@ -440,11 +447,8 @@ final class Uuid
             );
         }
 
-        $hex = $this->toString();
-        $hex = str_replace('-', '', $hex);
-
         $number = \Moontoast\Math\BigNumber::baseConvert(
-            $hex,
+            $this->getHex(),
             16,
             10
         );