Re^5: Equivalent of unpack 'q' with 32-bit Perl (a8)

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Re^6: Equivalent of unpack 'q' with 32-bit Perl (a8) by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Sep 06, 2016 at 23:51 UTC
Anonymous Monk, just use md5_hex to get hex version of digest That's a brilliant (obvious) idea. I wish I had thought of it before I wrote the code above (which now handles negative numbers as well). I assume your approach will work but I am not inclined to verify (the guy I am helping should be able to do it himself). Thanks! Edit: After thinking about it for a minute, I don't think that would work. Basically, you have an 128 bit integer in binary form and you are then converting the first 64 bits of it into decimal form. I'm pretty sure a hex digest isn't going to help here because you can't simply just cut it in half. Cheers - L~R	[reply]
Re^7: Equivalent of unpack 'q' with 32-bit Perl (a8) by RonW (Parson) on Sep 07, 2016 at 20:41 UTC
After thinking about it for a minute, I don't think that would work. Basically, you have an 128 bit integer in binary form and you are then converting the first 64 bits of it into decimal form. I'm pretty sure a hex digest isn't going to help here because you can't simply just cut it in half. That seems to be what `unpack('q', md5($foo))` is doing - cutting the digest in half. `use Digest::MD5 'md5'; my $foo = 'hello, world!'; my @v = unpack('q', md5($foo)); printf "%x %x\n", @v;` [download] `$ perl unpackq.pl e3ba1f79d1badb3a 0` [download] If you really need to convert the whole digest to an integer, try `Math::BigInt->from_hex(md5_hex($foo))`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^8: Equivalent of unpack 'q' with 32-bit Perl (a8) by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Sep 07, 2016 at 20:54 UTC
RonW, If you really need to convert the whole digest to an integer I just need to duplicate the result of `unpack('q', md5($thing))` on 32bit Perl. I wrote something that works at home (see this thread) but it doesn't seem to work at work and I can't understand why. Cheers - L~R	[reply] [d/l]
Re^9: Equivalent of unpack 'q' with 32-bit Perl (a8) by RonW (Parson) on Sep 08, 2016 at 16:34 UTC
Re^7: Equivalent of unpack 'q' with 32-bit Perl (a8) by Anonymous Monk on Sep 07, 2016 at 22:14 UTC
Edit: After thinking about it for a minute, I don't think that would work. Basically, you have an 128 bit integer in binary form and you are then converting the first 64 bits of it into decimal form. I'm pretty sure a hex digest isn't going to help here because you can't simply just cut it in half. What are you talking about?	[reply]