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Hi,

So the problem is that i need to convert a large decimal number to binary.

The script below works fine for most numbers:

sub dec2bin {
my $str = unpack("B32", pack("N", shift));
$str =~ s/^0+(?=\d)//;
return $str;
}

But if the decimal gets really big i only get "11111111111111111111........111111" returned.....

Anyone have a solution for this?

I'm working on a manual algorithm and will post it if i get it to work....

Cheers,
w_s

:biggrin:

So i found a solution, anyone interested can pm me