I wanted to say the same thing, but I'm late, I guess:
use bigint;
my $n = 123456789123456;
my ($h, $d);
while ($n > 0) {
$d = $n % 16;
$n /= 16;
$h .= sprintf "%x",$d;
}
print scalar reverse $h;
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use bigint;
my $n = 123456789123456;
print $n->as_hex;
or just
use bigint;
print 123456789123456->as_hex
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couldn't have been easier than this.
Thanks kikuchiyo, you saved my day
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I don't know for sure (as I've not used it in anger), but I'd guess that using unpack might be the way to go.
I've no doubt that the more learned members of the fraternity|(brother|sister)hood will enlighten us both...
A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))
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tried unpack same result :(
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The basic problem appears to be that you have a 32 bit machine and you need a bigger integer than can be represented in 32 bits.
If you have 4 bits, the biggest unsigned number that
you can represent is with all 4 bits "on", is, "1111", or
15 in decimal, 2**4-1=15, or 'F'. 0123456789ABCDEF is all
16 possibilities with 4 bits.
The biggest unsigned 32 bit number is 2**32-1= 4,294,967,295.
The normal convention for representing a "signed" number is what
is called 2's complement arithmetic. If you have 4 bits and have
say 0001, to get "-1", you complement (reverse) all bits and then add
one. 1110+1=1111. Now we come to the interpretation of whether "1111"
means "15" or "-1". Basically the most significant bit becomes the
"sign bit". 0111 with 4 bits is the max positive number or 2**3-1=7.
1000 is the max negative number which weirdly enough is -8.
So if you have 32 bits as signed 2's complement, you get
"0111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111" or 2,147,483,647 as the
max positive number and -2,147,483,648 as the max negative number.
I think a Perl float uses more than 32 bits for the "mantissa". I think it maybe
as many as 53 bits. I'm not sure. I think the "safest" way is to use these
big int modules. The 32 bit integer to think about is 2 billion. When you get to that size integer number, things can get more complicated.
123,143,230,627 is a lot bigger than 2,147,483,647 and hence the problems.
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