Hi Monks,

I want to determine the CRC of a string as follows:

I split the input string in 4 byte blocks. Then I take the value of the 4 bytes (big endian) and add the value to the next 4 bytes of the string, ...
If the last part of the string consists of less than 4 bytes then I pad the not available bytes with "00".

By building the sum it could happen that the value gets bigger than 4 bytes. So I take a modulo 0x100000000

This modulo operation leads to a warning:

Integer overflow in hexadecimal number at generateLoadFile.pl line 27.
Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable at generateLoadFile.pl li
+ne 27.

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Here my bad code for doing this. It is working but I don't like it:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $buffer = "";
my $i = 0;
my $crc = 0;
my $val = "";
my $k = 0;

# solution: 990644297
$buffer = "/etc/test2.sh";

# Integer overflow in hexadecimal number at generateLoadFile.pl line 2
+8.
# Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable at generateLoadFile.pl 
+line 45.
# Integer overflow in hexadecimal number at generateLoadFile.pl line 2
+8.
# Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable at generateLoadFile.pl 
+line 45.

for( $i = 0; $i < int(length($buffer) / 4); $i = $i + 1 )
{
    $val =
        sprintf("%02X", ord(substr($buffer, ($i*4) + 0, 1))) .
        sprintf("%02X", ord(substr($buffer, ($i*4) + 1, 1))) .
        sprintf("%02X", ord(substr($buffer, ($i*4) + 2, 1))) .
        sprintf("%02X", ord(substr($buffer, ($i*4) + 3, 1)));
        
    $crc = ($crc + hex($val)) % 0x100000000;
}

$val = "";
$k = 0;
for( 1 .. int(length($buffer) % 4) )
{    
    $val .= sprintf("%02X", ord(substr($buffer, ($i*4) + $k, 1)));
    $k++;
}

# pad other bytes of 32bit with "00"
for( 1 .. (4 - int(length($buffer) % 4)) )
{
    $val .= "00";
}

$crc = ($crc + hex($val)) % 0x100000000;

print $crc . "\n";

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The CRC of the string "/etc/test2.sh" is 990644297.

Now my questions:

  1. How to get rid of the modulo warning?
  2. Is there an easier way to do this?

Thank you very much

Dirk

In reply to CRC of a string by Dirk80

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