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Re^3: hexadecimal division (string to number casting only for decimal! numbers! )

by LanX (Saint)
on Dec 16, 2017 at 14:30 UTC ( [id://1205679]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: hexadecimal division
in thread hexadecimal division

First there is nothing like a "hexadecimal division" in Perl.

Numbers are represented internally as integers or floats in binary format.

You are only free to use different base systems for the notation, see perlnumber .

But the division is always the same!

> the division or 0x05 by 0x10 that failed as the result was 0x30 not 0x00

really?

DB<17> p 0x05/0x10 0.3125 DB<18> p int(0x05/0x10) 0

But "\x10" is not a number it's a one-character string with the ASCII code 16 (= 0x10)

DB<25> p int(0x05/"\x10") Illegal division by zero at (eval 33)[C:/Perl_64/lib/perl5db.pl:646] l +ine 2.

"\x{Hex}" is just a way to use chr inside interpolated strings!

(See "escape sequences" in perlop#Quote-and-Quote-like-Operators for details.)

Stop using ASCII codes in strings for hex-numbers!

Perl is not C, it will ONLY try to treat a string which looks like a decimal number as it's look-a-like number, all others as number zero in numerical context.

DB<31> p "05"/"16" # strings with decimal(!) numbers 0.3125

Again Perl is not C and will NOT try to take the byte-code of a character as a number, (unless you use ord explicitly ) !

"\x10" doesn't look like a decimal number, it doesn't even look like any number at all!

It's just one character which has position 16 (=0x10) in the ASCII table.

DB<27> p ord("\x10") 16 DB<28> p "\x10" &#9658; # not a number, hence 0

(NB: &#9658; shows as ► on my display this is not a number, not even a character.

It's the Data_Link_Escape character in original ASCII, some OS try to overload it with something more meaningful.)

This can only succeed (somehow) if you use the ASCII-code of a number character.

Only the 10 characters "0".."9" look like a digit in ASCII.

DB<1> p ord("1") 49 DB<2> p ord("\x31") 49 DB<3> p 0 + "\x31" # string = "1" looks like number 1 DB<4> p 5 / "\x31\x36" # string = "16" looks like number 0.3125

I hope it's clearer now, since we already had this discussion in one of your last questions!

--> vexed by the hex!

Cheers Rolf
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