I only just caught up on this thread, and noticed the post above saying that & is VB for string concatenation.

I was not aware of this and took & to be bitwise AND. The pretty much renders the Math::BigInt stuff I showed in my previous post not just wrong but greviously so. For this I apologise. My only defense is that I did say that I knew little about VB.

By way of recompence for misdirecting you I have an observation and a recommendation that may or may not help, but that should be sufficiently quick to try that it won't matter too much if they don't pan out.

As & means concatenate then the result of 

strItemGUID = "{0420060000000000C000000000000046}" 

ptag_EMAIL_ADDRESS = "0x8083"

strTemp = strItemGUID & ptag_EMAIL_ADDRESS

print strTemp ' Is that the VB syntax for print?

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ought to be the value that you need to pass. So, if you have the ability to run that under VB, you should then see what it is that you are trying to achieve.

My best guess is that you will either get

{0420060000000000C000000000000046}0x8083

or {0420060000000000C000000000000046}32899

I suspect the former is more likely, but if VB interprets the contents of a string as a number and then converted it back to (decimal) ascii representation, it is conceivable that the latter could be the result. In any case, once you print the result of the expression you will (should?) know one way or the other (or the third way I haven't conceived of:). And once you know what you are aiming to produce, it should be relatively simple to reproduce it in perl.

I truely hope that this helps and will make up for my earlier misinterpretation.

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"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
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In reply to Re: Re: From VB to Perl by BrowserUk
in thread From VB to Perl by ChrisR

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