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in reply to Re: Re: Bit by a Hex String
in thread Bit by a Hex String

$num1=Math::BigInt->new("0x".$source);

Ah, I didn't know you could do that. The Math::BigInt manual page says:

Input Input values to these routines may be either Math::Big- Int objects or strings of the form "/^[+-]?[\d]+\.?[\d]*E?[+-]?[\d]*$/".

Abigail