Re^2: MongoDB or Perl Data type?

thank you,but no answer.

the driver's author Kristina reply me with:

'This is intentional, Perl saves all numbers as 64-bit integers on 64-bit platforms, and NumberLong is how the shell displays 64-bit numbers. See http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Overview+-+The+MongoDB+Interactive+Shell#Overview-TheMongoDBInteractiveShell-Numbers.'

insert number using mongodb shell is ok,it just a basic number,but use perl driver MongoDB,it became NumberLong(*) ,who can help me?

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Re^3: MongoDB or Perl Data type? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 22, 2012 at 02:59 UTC
thank you,but no answer. the driver's author Kristina reply me with: 'This is intentional, Perl saves all numbers as 64-bit integers on 64-bit platforms, and NumberLong is how the shell displays 64-bit numbers. See http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Overview+-+The+MongoDB+Interactive+Shell#Overview-TheMongoDBInteractiveShell-Numbers.' insert number using mongodb shell is ok,it just a basic number,but use perl driver MongoDB,it became NumberLong(*) ,who can help me? I think you just got your answer, there is nothing you can do about it (short of writing your own MongoDB driver)	[reply]

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Re^3: MongoDB or Perl Data type?
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 22, 2012 at 02:59 UTC

thank you,but no answer. the driver's author Kristina reply me with: 'This is intentional, Perl saves all numbers as 64-bit integers on 64-bit platforms, and NumberLong is how the shell displays 64-bit numbers. See http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Overview+-+The+MongoDB+Interactive+Shell#Overview-TheMongoDBInteractiveShell-Numbers.' insert number using mongodb shell is ok,it just a basic number,but use perl driver MongoDB,it became NumberLong(*) ,who can help me?

I think you just got your answer, there is nothing you can do about it (short of writing your own MongoDB driver)

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