3. Are there any other (neater) implementations of my script above

In terms of the original problem as presented, I believe that it an alternate approach employing the exponentiation operator/functions would be more efficient and side-step the format conversion problems.

In Perl: 

perl -le 'print $_, ": 0 to ", 2**$_ - 1 for 0..32'

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In C: 
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>

int main (void) {

    int i;
    for (i = 0; i <= 32; i++) 
        printf("%d: 0 to %.f\n", i, pow(2, i) - 1);

    return(0);
}

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Both implementations are capable of outputting ranges of unsigned integer numbers for up to 64 bits (untested beyond).

 

perl -le "print unpack'N', pack'B32', '00000000000000000000001010110011'"

In reply to Re: Integer overflow in Perl and C by rob_au
in thread Integer overflow in Perl and C by amrangaye

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