On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Ruth Albocher wrote:
> I wish to use variables of type:
> double/long (but not float!)
> binary numbers and casting strings to binary
> unsigned integers(doubled would be better!)
>
> can somone point me in the right direction?
Technically, Perl only has two kinds of data types -- lists and scalars.
However, Perl does some magical things when it comes to numbers & scalars.
Rather than reproduce the copious documentation available for Perl, I will
just say read the 'perldata' page with perldoc.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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