Re: Converting an array of bytes into a BigInt

Did you look at the pack function, it converts lists of things into a binary structure and returns it in a string.

Comment on Re: Converting an array of bytes into a BigInt - speed considerations

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Re: Re: Converting an array of bytes into a BigInt - speed considerations by dempa (Friar) on Jan 23, 2003 at 12:34 UTC
Yes, I know, but I seldom use pack and unpack. If it's possible to do this with pack I guess I have to read up on it. (Perl is really wonderful this way; I've been programming Perl for 6 years and still there are things relatively unknown to me!) -- dempa	[reply]