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Invalid conversion in sprintf: "%b" at ./foo.cgi line 13.

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Use -w and strict, then you will see that it's %d, not %b
major apologies :#

UPDATE:

sorry, i see what you are wanting to do now, you should use pack and unpack instead of sprintf: 

my $a = unpack("B32", pack("N", $a));
$a =~ s/^0+(?=\d)//;
print $a;

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I did a SuperSearch on 'convert binary decimal' and came across How do I convert between decimal and binary?.

jeff "will move to 5.6 someday real soon" a

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Re: (jeffa) Re: sprintf() and CGI
by asiufy (Monk) on May 10, 2001 at 02:34 UTC
    Jeff, thanks for the valid points ("strict" and "-w"), but that was just a quick example I wrote to exemplify the problem I found on a bigger script (which uses both "strict" and "-w").

    The problem is that I don't want a decimal but a binary back, that's why I used "%b", as described here.

    In fact, I ran your script, replacing the "d" for a "b", and it worked just fine on the command line (just like mine did before, even though it didn't had -w and strict on). But when I run it through the browser (as a CGI), it still returns "%04b"...

    btw this is Perl 5.6.1 on Solaris 2.8 with Apache 1.3.19.
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Re: (jeffa) Re: sprintf() and CGI
by asiufy (Monk) on May 10, 2001 at 02:37 UTC
    Well, but I still find it strange that sprintf("%b") works right from the command line, but fails from CGI...

    I understand the "%b" is a recent (5.6.0) feature, so maybe no one noticed yet this behavior...

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      Sounds like your CGIs are using a different version of Perl than you get from your command-line. Change your script to also print out $] (and perhaps "@INC") to see.

              - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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        tye, you nailed it! Sun ships Perl v5.003 in /usr/bin/perl, and I ended up installing 5.6.1 on /usr/local/bin ...

        Thanks!!!
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