[flexcoders] how do I read a hexadecimal number value correctly?

[ivo]

Hello all,

I am using the Google APIs and am finding the IDs of the objects in Google are 
not getting translated correctly. When I request for a list of GData objects
I get back objects that in the debugger look like this:

id = mx.collections.ArrayCollection (@10781ec1)   
    [0] = 5189229149115242496 [0x4803d86adb1dd800]    
    dispatchResetEvent = true    
    filterFunction = null    
    length = 1 
    list = mx.collections.ArrayList (@1048bb51)    
    sort = null    
    source = Array (@106e75b9)    

When I read the value of id[0] I get "5189229149115242000"   .

What would be the correct way of handling this value? I am attempting to covert 
it into a string so I can build a different URL.

Thanks,

- Ivo