in reply to Handling large numbers

Assuming you do want to do some calculations, Math::BigInt is for you.
use Math::BigInt; $a = Math::BigInt->new("3000000000000011"); $b = Math::BigInt->new("1233456789012345"); $a += $b; print "a: $a\n";
results in :
a: +4233456789012356

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Brovnik