While attempting to figure out a way to do conversion of large (overly) integers from base 10 to base 36, and back again I naturally went to CPAN and looked at Math::Base36, which appears to have a bug in its use of 'index' to determine if a character is not a valid base36 character, at least by the versions of the docs for index that I have access to. 'index' returns 0 or greater for the position, with -1 being a not found. Has this changed? Did 'index' start at 1 in the past?
The module also appears to have some other problems with arbitrarily large integers despite its use of Math::BigInt, though I couldn't really tell whether it was just using that module improperly, or whether the apparently ancient version of BigInt I have ($VERSION says 0.01) (my Perl is at 5.6.1) is buggy (which from my other tests it does appear to be), or maybe a little of both. Also not sure whether the Math::Base36 module is being maintained (or should have made it to CPAN in the first place) but I am asking about index to properly word my e-mail to the author, is this a bug or a syntax change? Seems like a pretty big one to be the latter... Any one out there have a better approach to wrangling conversions of large ints to and from base36? At this point I may have to roll my own, icky..... http://danconia.org -- Boycott the Sugar Bowl! You couldn't pay me to watch that game. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
