Re: GUIDs

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 18:26:27 -0500,
  David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote:
> On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 06:18  PM, Doug McNaught wrote:
>
> >NUMERIC is an arbitrary-precision integer, not a machine word
>
> Yeah, but that doesn't help me in Perl.

You can probably keep it as a string in perl. There are also large number
handling routines available for perl if you really need to treat it
as a number there.