in reply to Changing the value of a BigInt?

Thanks for the replies so far.

The thing I was trying to avoid was doing "new" each time I want to jam a different hex value into $strtcnt and $endcnt.
Basically these three vars live the whole time the program is running, so I was hoping to have a way to say:
$strtcnt = next_hex_val;

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without doing "new" but maybe new isn't what is causing slowness.

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Re: Re: Changing the value of a BigInt?
by ysth (Canon) on May 13, 2004 at 05:46 UTC
    Then you want to tie it; something like: 
    {   package Tie::AutoBigInt;
    use Tie::Scalar;
    use base "Tie::StdScalar";
    sub STORE { $_[0]->SUPER::STORE(new BigInt $_[1]) }
}
tie $strtcnt, "Tie::AutoBigInt";

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