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From: aks@hub.ucsb.edu (Alan Stebbens)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: How to handle 32-bit unsigned integers in Perl?
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Date: 7 Aug 90 23:06:07 GMT
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It appears that the ">>" operator does arithmetic shifts.  How can I do
an unsigned shift?  Do I have to test the sign bit first, then clear it,
before shifting, or is there another way?

Signed, frustrated :^)

Alan Stebbens        <aks@hub.ucsb.edu>             (805) 893-3221
     Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering (CCSE)
          University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
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