RE: UNIX : script help/input

> Good! The more the merrier! Welcome to the club.

Oh most definitely.

As I just finished writing a prototype package for assigning MAC addresses ( we make network stuff - that's a technical term ), I have endured the agonies of doing hex math in PL/SQL.

I finally bit the bullet and used string manipulation to convert hex to decimal and do what I needed that way. Couldn't get BITAND to work properly on very large integers. Besides, doing XOR with BITAND in PL/SQL is very painful.

UTL_RAW has an XOR, but it requires RAW values and I didn't feel like messing with it.

This is all very simple in Perl.

Given a MAC of 000050000AA, with a fixed portion of 00005000000, it is very easy to determine the variable portion of the address via $x = 0x000050000AA ^ 00005000000.

Not quite so simple in PL/SQL.

Jared

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 14:44, Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 14:34, Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote:
> > Funny .. I am currently sitting in a Perl class, so I can actually
> > read what MG has written. I'll be soon Perl-literate ...
> >
> > Raj
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