Chris Said: > Someone posted a question as to the size of number which a > scalar would > tolerate.
I guess I missed this thread, so I hope I'm not repeating information. :) > Perl seems to > tolerate quite a bit of this, as the app has been churning away, > printing every so many number just to let me know where it's > at, and it > recently went past two hundred billion (I cheated and am incrementing > by 1000 instead of 1, because I got impatient incrementing by one). >From the O'Reilly Camel Book: "Perl stores numbers as signed integers if possible, or as double-precision floating point values in the machine's native format otherwise" > $scalars in perl handle big numbers ... and maybe Perl notices when a > boundary is being crossed and reconstitutes the number? Also, see perldoc perlnumber for more information. It explains a lot of this. Sorry if I'm repeating information, Jared -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
