[erlang-questions] ei: decoding negative values

[Daniel Goertzen]

See ei_s_print_term() to directly render the number to text, then you don't
have to worry about the sign.

Alternatively, try a larger signed decode like ei_decode_longlong() or
ei_decode_bignum().

Cheers,
Dan.

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Joel Reymont <joelr1@REDACTED> wrote:

> When using ei, how do I know whether to decode signed or unsigned values?
>
> I'm not sure if I should use ei_decode_long or ei_decode_ulong and
> ei_get_type is not very helpful here.
>
> My goal is to display the value that was encoded.
>
>        Thanks, Joel
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