Re: GUIDs

On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 11:20  PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

>> Yeah, but that doesn't help me in Perl.
>
> You can probably keep it as a string in perl. There are also large
> number
> handling routines available for perl if you really need to treat it
> as a number there.

I can store them as a string in Perl, but the trick is getting the
string representation in the first place. The library I was looking at
using Data::UUID, offers binary and hex representations, as well as a
32 bit alphanumeric string and a Base64-encoded string, but not a
numeric string, unfortunately.

   http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data-UUID/UUID.pm

Regards,

David

--
David Wheeler                                     AIM: dwTheory
david@kineticode.com                              ICQ: 15726394
http://www.kineticode.com/                     Yahoo!: dew7e
                                                Jabber: Theory@jabber.org
Kineticode. Setting knowledge in motion.[sm]