When I use "int()" in perl, what I actually wanted was C's cast-to-int or JavaScript's parseInt()

I don't know of any perl function that will do that.
I'd do it as an XSub: 
SV * _to_IV(SV * in) {
  if(SvNV(in) < 0) return newSViv(SvIV(in));
  return newSVuv(SvUV(in));
}

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However, in your case, assuming that $limit > ~0 >> 1, you could just do it as: 
IV _to_IV(SV * in) {
  return SvIV(in);
}

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which (if I'm thinking correctly) would still reject arguments greater than ~0 >> 1 because $count is negative.

Of course, you might prefer to just check that the arg is not a NaN, if you trust the NaN != NaN test or POSIX::isnan or somesuch.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^8: Weird behavior of int() by syphilis
in thread Weird behavior of int() by cLive ;-)

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