Hello Kristi,
At 10:22 AM 10/24/2002 -0500, Goodman Kristi - kgoodm wrote:
>Does anyone know why Perl has a hard time with large numbers and sometimes
>turns them into negative numbers? Sorry if I am not being specific enough,
>but really all I am doing is calculating the number of records in a file and
>if it is a large number of records (lets say over a million) it will return
>a negative number for some reason.
Could you please provide an example? Also on what operating system are you
using perl? What perl version ('perl -V')?
For exampe, this piece of code works just find on Cygwin and Linux:
perl -e '$a=100000000000000 ; $a++ ; print $a, "\n" ;
You must agree that 1 + 10^14 (~100 Terabytes) is a pretty big number. I
doubt you have a file that has that many records.
Regards,
- Robert
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