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- Subject: Re: tostring(e,[base])
- From: Dirk Laurie <dpl@...>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:40:59 +0200
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:06:38PM +0200, Doug Currie wrote:
> This also shows that tonumber (in Lua 5.1.4) has trouble with negative number strings not in base 10.
>
> > return tonumber('-3ZM2P', 36)
> 1.8446744073703e+19
>
> > return tonumber('-3456', 10)
> -3456
>
> > return tonumber('-1010', 2)
> 1.844674407371e+19
>
> e
>
>
Seems to be cleared up already.
Lua 5.2.0 (beta) Copyright (C) 1994-2011 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> return tonumber('3ZM2P', 36)
6700417
> return tonumber('-3ZM2P', 36)
-6700417
> return tonumber('-1010', 2)
-10
Dirk
