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UPDATE: I was LARTed out of my delirious stupor. Ignore this and all other replies.

http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/sprintf.html

HTH.

mtfnpy

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Re^6: Converting Hexadecimal to Decimal notation and vice-versa
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 20, 2009 at 01:52 UTC

    On a couple of occasions I have been accused of being deliberately dense, but in this thread, you really take the biscuit.

    How can sprintf correctly render to hexadecimal, an integer numerically greater than Perl can accurately represent?

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      Welp, should have done my research.

      Anyone want to take a screen capture for posterity?

      me--

      mtfnpy

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