Can someone explain File >> hex >> DWORD?

[h4344]

So im reading hex numbers from a text document and i found the solution for reading the whole thing which turned out to be File >> hex >> DWORD; but i dont understand exactly what hex is doing there, can someone explain it? not knowing what im doing in my code bugs the hell out of me :/

[Disch]

It's telling the 'File' object for format the input as hexadecimal rather than decimal. So a string of "10" will get read back as sixteen and not as ten.