> Good! The more the merrier! Welcome to the club. Oh most definitely.
As I just finished writing a prototype package for assigning MAC addresses ( we make network stuff - that's a technical term ), I have endured the agonies of doing hex math in PL/SQL. I finally bit the bullet and used string manipulation to convert hex to decimal and do what I needed that way. Couldn't get BITAND to work properly on very large integers. Besides, doing XOR with BITAND in PL/SQL is very painful. UTL_RAW has an XOR, but it requires RAW values and I didn't feel like messing with it. This is all very simple in Perl. Given a MAC of 000050000AA, with a fixed portion of 00005000000, it is very easy to determine the variable portion of the address via $x = 0x000050000AA ^ 00005000000. Not quite so simple in PL/SQL. Jared On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 14:44, Mladen Gogala wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 14:34, Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote: > > Funny .. I am currently sitting in a Perl class, so I can actually > > read what MG has written. I'll be soon Perl-literate ... > > > > Raj > > > > > > Note: > This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, > proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is > waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please > immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies > of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, > distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended > recipient. Wang Trading LLC and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to > monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. > Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where > the message states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the > views of any such entity. > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Mladen Gogala > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jared Still INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
