Wayne Simmons wrote:
> First off ALWAYS "use strict;" it's just a waste not to.
Sound advice. Also, "use warnings;" as well.
>
> At your assignment: "$number = ;" I assume you put in a value here by
> hand, (hard coded). You should have shown an example of this. If
> you just type
> "$number = 01010001" then perl will take it as a hexadecimal number
> and thus the 16. Basically if you start a number with 0 it is
> considered to be hex. If however you assign the number like this:
> $number = '000101010' then it works just fine for me.
Not correct.
>From 'perldoc perldata'
0xff # hex
0xdead_beef # more hex
0377 # octal
0b011011 # binary
HTH
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Brian Raven
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