Posted by Curtis on 02/01/07 04:26

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:38:42 -0800, Gunnar G <debian@comhem.se> wrote:

> I have read a file with the file() command and it contains numbers, =

> numbers
> that are larger than 2^32 and now I wonder, will this be a problem if =
I =

> do
> arithemtcis, or is there some easy way to force it to use consider the=

> array as floatingpoint numbers?
>
>

Although PHP's dynamic typing should handle this properly, it might be =

useful to convert the string to an unsigned int with sprintf, if you run=
=

into issues:

/* maybe pretend we're looping */
$uintArray[] =3D sprintf('%u', trim($currentLine)); // this way, huge in=
ts =

won't become negative

This is useful when you are converting IPs to longs.

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Curtis, http://dyersweb.com

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