How do I use hex colour values in my code?

I want to import colour palettes from a JSON file and I find it much tidier to have a single hex value to represent each colour rather than an array of 3 different values (rgb).However, I can seem to find any way in C3 to set colour using Hex values(in code)). (only RGB)

I figured the best way would be to write a little converter in Javascript, but even though I have the new converted values as an array (eg rgb_array = [r,g,b];) I dont know how to get this back from my Javscript into construct. I can only set values of variables in Construct that are strings, numbers or booleans.

Cheers

p.S I tried the plugin called 'CONVERTERCOLORJS (AIOUTE GAO)' but using the following:

Set Color Colour_Converter.toRGB("#e4646e")

Didnt do anything to the colour.

Thanks so much for this. Very useful! I tested it and ran into a slight issue. The code you sent doesn't account for the # character so if your hex has a # character the resulting colours will be very green.

If your hex numbers contain # symbols you might want also to add the following line to trim it from the string first:

set hex to replace(hex, "#", "")

This way both formats will work. eg 0000ff and #0000ff

I have attached screenshot..