Re^2: Number too big to fit in integer

Thanks. POSIX::strtol and POSIX::strtoul crossed my mind, too, but there are rather too many caveats for comfort.

It isn't my use case I'm most worried about. It's the expectations of some unknown user. If high and low differ by 1, the user may be expecting to see both of them in a large sample. But if they are huge, floating point precision may collapse them into a single integer value. I'd prefer to issue a fatal message than disappoint.

Looks like Math::BigInt may be the clunky best solution.

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Re^3: Number too big to fit in integer by NERDVANA (Priest) on Dec 25, 2022 at 05:49 UTC
Why are you thinking about unsigned integers anyway? rand() is limited to the precision of a double (53 bits) and beyond that there will be integers it never generates. rand() is really only suitable for cheap throwaway random numbers anyway. Check `perldoc -f rand` for alternatives.	[reply] [d/l]