Re^3: Big Int to hex with 5.6

There's an important clue in the error message: you need to use Math::Bigint; (or use bigint;). But if you aren't already doing that, what do you mean by a "bigint number"?

Oh, I see; you perhaps are using the ancient decrepit perl4-ish bigint.pl; you are strongly advised to install a new version of Math::BigInt (which I believe includes a bigint.pm module also) which has scads of bug fixes and use it instead.

You also should be doing print $bignum->as_hex();; just calling it in void context doesn't do anything.

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Re^4: Big Int to hex with 5.6 by ZlR (Chaplain) on Dec 12, 2004 at 22:05 UTC
you perhaps are using the ancient decrepit perl4-ish bigint.pl I'm using active perl 5.6, and as far as i understand it as_hex is not in the methods offered : BigInt ActiveState Sadly upgrading is not an option here. How can do it ? I'm trying to divide by 16 as in a standard conversion but it doesn't work very well ...	[reply]
Re^5: Big Int to hex with 5.6 by ysth (Canon) on Dec 12, 2004 at 23:29 UTC
Did you try `perl -MCPAN -we"install Math::BigInt"`? (May require you to install nmake; see http://search.cpan.org/src/MSCHWERN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.24/README for where you can get it.)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: Big Int to hex with 5.6 by ZlR (Chaplain) on Dec 13, 2004 at 00:18 UTC
it's not that i don't now how to install the latest bigint , it is that i'm not allowed to .	[reply]