String representation of the Int64 representation

[jorgebay]

It would be nice to have the string representation of numbers bigger than Math.pow(2, 53) integrated on this module.

[deathcap]

👍 The closest way to currently do this seems to be toOctetString(), but it returns a string of hexadecimal digits; toString() returning the decimal representation even for >2^53 (instead of Infinity) would be nice.

[soulne4ny]

Version 0.4.0:

$ node
> const Int64 = require( 'node-int64' );
> b = new Buffer([0xff, 0xee, 0xdd, 0xcc, 0xAA, 0xBB, 0x00, 0x99])
<Buffer ff ee dd cc aa bb 00 99>
> (new Int64( b )).toString(10);
'-4822678473342823'
> b = new Buffer([96, 0x8e, 0x9c, 0xc6, 0x83, 0xa5, 0x19, 0x56])
<Buffer 60 8e 9c c6 83 a5 19 56>
> (new Int64( b )).toString(10);
'Infinity'

[liaozhongwu]

Any update on this issue? I publish hex2decimal to solve this problem. Here is my PR #17

[soulne4ny]

.toSignedDecimalString() does correct transformation.
Then it is quite strange toString() can not do what it is supposed to do.

[michielbdejong]

If you want to convert between 8-byte buffers and decimal strings, you can also use https://github.com/q3boy/int64/pull/1/files