I do not think you get the same results using x: I think your ".@,&'x'@> data was fine.
You could use 10#.x:".@>@> data if you don't mind the speed penalty and excessive use of memory, but x:".@> data does not give the same answer, and as far as I know, x: does not accept string arguments. Am I missing something? Thanks, -- Raul On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 6:46 PM Thomas Bulka <thomas.bu...@constraintegic.net> wrote: > > Sorry for the noise, > > question can be revoked, since I found x: ... > > Regards, > > Thomas > > Am Sa., 23. Apr. 2022 um 23:54 Uhr schrieb Thomas Bulka > <thomas.bu...@constraintegic.net>: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > say, I have a boxed list of strings which represent large integers > > (originally I imported the data from a text file): > > > > data =: > > '34823742834835345345345346546454237';'34593823489289342893498945349539' > > > > I want to convert the character data into integers to use them for > > computations, but ". gives me non-extended integers, so: > > > > ".@> data NB. 3.48237e34 3.45938e31 > > > > I know, of course, that I can construct an extended integer by means > > of adding a trailing x to an integer literal. I wonder, however, how > > this can be done automatically. I managed to get the result I want by > > adding the trailing 'x' to the character arrays before using ". on > > them: > > > > ".@,&'x'@> data NB. Works as desired > > > > However, intuitively this seems to be a quite strange solution and I > > hope there is a verb which can be used to explicitly convert the > > character strings into extended integers. Unfortunately, I've not been > > able to find it. > > > > Any suggestions on this? > > > > Regards, > > > > Thomas > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
