in reply to Opposite of strtol?

A Perl scalar will pretend to be a number or a string as the circumstances require, so you do not need a "string to/from number" function.

Actually, POSIX::strtol does not "parse a string representation of a number in any base into a number" but does a "String to (long) integer translation", which is quite different, but in Perl --IMO-- seldom useful.

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Re^2: Opposite of strtol?
by ysth (Canon) on Jun 21, 2009 at 19:15 UTC
    A Perl scalar will pretend to be a number or a string as the circumstances require, so you do not need a "string to/from number" function.
    You do if you want a non-base-2/8/10/16 string representation.
    Actually, <c>POSIX::strtol<c> does not "parse a string representation of a number in any base into a number" but does a "String to (long) integer translation", which is quite different, but in Perl --IMO-- seldom useful.
    In principle, yes, but if you know it will work with the range of numbers you have, strtol is possibly fine.
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