I need more bytes
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| what happens when I want to have a number that's bigger than 2147483647. Is there any way of doing that in Blitz? |
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| Not if you want the code to be executed quickly, but it is possible to use strings or banks to store arbitrary-precision numbers. Try this - http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=2030 . |
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| To explain my problem further (maybe I don't need more bytes and there's a different way to do this) I know the dotted IP of a server but need to have it in integer form (because that's what UDP likes for some reason). I have the formula to do this but sometimes the number is greater than an integer can hold. And how do you use that code above; I looked at it and was stumped. |
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| To explain my problem further (maybe I don't need more bytes and there's a different way to do this) I know the dotted IP of a server but need to have it in integer form (because that's what UDP likes for some reason). I have the formula to do this but sometimes the number is greater than an integer can hold. I think you're confused. An IPV4 dotted IP has four values between 0 and 255. So four bytes. And a Blitz3D integer is 32 bit. So four bytes. The fact that integers can't be above 2 billion doesn't mean that data is being lost, it just means that Blitz3D uses the first bit to determine the sign of the value. There are still 4 billion combinations, they just appear different when printed. The data is still the same, it's purely an aesthetic difference. |
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| Oh, thanks Gabriel. I got the code working. |
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