Re: [Plugins-writers] Converting a string to an int that's greater than 2^31-1

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theall@private

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:32:06AM -0700, Jon Passki wrote:

> I'm tweaking my first plugin that I'm about ready to spam the list
> with, but I'm having a situation where I'm given a string that
> represents a long int.  I.e., the decimal value is greater than
> 2147483647.  How can I convert that string into an int without
> losing any information?

I don't think you can - NASL doesn't support long ints. Can you write
your code so it looks at the value as composed of multiple parts?

George
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