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What the string is: 99999999999999999999 Value of $strAsInteger: 1e+20 How printf sees it: 18446744073709551615
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The results are puzzling.

Perl automatically upgrades large integers to floating point.

Perl's maximum values for integers can be determined as I showed in this post.

If you want to work with integers larger than that, use Math::BigInt.

To validate number formats, use Regexp::Common::number.

Update: If two integers are the same length (or are zero-padded to be the same length), Perl's string comparisons can be used.

In reply to Re: Reliably parsing an integer (updated) by haukex
in thread Reliably parsing an integer by rdiez

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