ntoh equivalent in lua wireshark

Hi,

I am a little new to writing a dissector using lua. So, please bare an amateur.

I am trying to implement a dissector for one of our projects. Since my host order(currently) is little Endian, I am using methods like "tree:add_le()", "tvbuf:range(offset,2):le_uint()", etc.

However, i would want to run a command, which is equivalent to "ntohl()"( method used in C/C++) at the beginning itself, which would eliminate any errors with byte ordering during dissection.

Please help.

Thanks, Spark