LUA and bignum

sezb51
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Hello,

is it possible for LUA dissector to convert 8x bytes to its decimal/string equivalence ?

local input="00007048860ddf75"
local output = tostring(tonumber(input,16))

expected: 123456789012341
but got: 1.2345678901234e+14

I understand this is normally overcome with some bignum library (ie: bc.dll) but not sure it can work within dissector sandbox.

Any idea ?

Thx, A.

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11.13.1.5. Int64.fromhex(hex)
Creates an Int64 object from the given hexadecimal string.

Works like a charm!

local input="00007048860ddf75"
local output = Int64.fromhex(input)

it does produces now: 123456789012341

I think I may refactor few things with Int64 now :)

Thank you! A.

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