Hi I am trying to run 'bc' unix command within perl but that seems really hard right now. I am using bc because the numbers I am using are beyond 64bit in size. Here's a code snippet. 
$temp_addr = "A5A5A5A5A5A5A5A5";
$temp_data = "82100000";
my $bc_addr = `echo \"ibase=16;obase=16;($temp_addr/8)\" | bc`;
my $bc_data = `echo \"ibase=16;obase=16;($temp_data*200)\" | bc`;
die "$bc_data, $bc_addr";

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The output for the code when I run it is something like...

02 08 20 08 03 09 14 , 02 00 14 05 04 06 12 13 04 04 15 18 07 11 15 02 00

Now I was expecting the o/p in hex and a valid one at that. This one flies over my head. When I run bc in the shell directly things are just fine.

In reply to bc within perl by amudelkaa

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