Re: [PHP] Re: Help needed with hexdec();

2002-07-08 Thread Richard Lynch
>I wrote a less-limited hex2dec function years ago, and threw it up on >Sklar, >or, uhhh, the *other* PHP code repository. There were really only two, >back >then... :-) Another option would be the BC Math package which will let you compute arbitrarily large numbers, albeit a bit slower. Just h

RE: [PHP] Re: Help needed with hexdec();

2002-07-08 Thread frank
Thank you for your answer Richard, unfortunately the port from perl to PHP didn't work out the way I wanted it to - probably mainly because of the lack of perl knowledge here. And yes you are right, the numbers I use are a lot bigger than 2147483647. If anyone has an idea on how to treat the num