sybperl-l Archive

From: ivan at algorithmics dot com (Ivan Simon)
Subject: Sybperl question
Date: Jan 18 1996 8:35PM

I have a question about sybperl.

Sometimes Sybase generates IDENTITY numbers that are very large,
18 digits long. This is too long for sybperl and perl to handle
as an integer and so they are converted to exponential notation
when they are returned from sybase to perl throught sybperl.

I would like to catch these values as strings on the perl side
without changing the sybase stored procedure that returns them.
(Do a convert(varchar(20),inst_id) in the stored procedure).

Any suggestions as to how I can do this.

Thanks,

Ivan.

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