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in thread Bitwise AND with large numbers

Hi,

Thank you for your quick reactions ;-)
Using Math::BigInt or pack I unfortunately still get an integer overflow. I'm probably doing something wrong but don't see what. Sorry if this is to much of a newbie question.

A little more context: The hexstring comes from a switch. I want to use the hexstring to determine if a switchport is member of a specific VLAN. The code I have so far is: 
my $switchPortNumber = 2;
# 32 Character hex string from switch
my $hexstring = hex '40000000000000000000000000000000'; 
my $mask = (0x80000000000000000000000000000000 >> $switchPortNumber);
my $result = ($hexstring & $mask) > 0;

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In this case only the first port is a member and the second port is NOT a member. Therefore the $result should be 0

If possible I would like to stick to the default Perl modules.
Thanks again for all the help so far.

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Re^3: Bitwise AND with large numbers
by Eliya (Vicar) on Apr 16, 2012 at 17:12 UTC

    This works fine for me: 

    use Math::BigInt;

my $switchPortNumber = 2;
# 32 Character hex string from switch
my $hexstring = Math::BigInt->new('0x40000000000000000000000000000000'
+); 
my $mask = (Math::BigInt->new('0x80000000000000000000000000000000') >>
+ $switchPortNumber);
my $result = ($hexstring & $mask) > 0;

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    Another approach would be to turn it into an ASCII bitstring, in which case you can use a simple substr() instead of the AND masking 

    my $bitstring = unpack('B*', pack('H*', '40000000000000000000000000000
+000'));
my $result = substr($bitstring, $switchPortNumber, 1) eq '1';

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      Hey Eliya,

      Thanks for the quick response. Your solutions look promising. I especially like the one where you turn the hex string in a ASCII bit string. I will try this with my code and test it with the switch. I will let you know how things went.

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