[Bro] - large double are not printed/written correctly

[william de ping]

Hi,

Yes, it seems that bro logging and writing large\small numbers is rounded
up\down.

I cannot find any workaround besides printing it as a string (which is not
a good approach).

Any suggestions ?

Thanks
B

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Seth Hall <seth at corelight.com> wrote:

> If you are talking about logging through the logging framework, then
> that's a different code path for value serialization (I think we try and
> avoid scientific notation there).  Generally just allowing Bro to serialize
> values how ever it feels like it as you are doing with the bare unformatted
> print statement can occasionally result in some undesirable behavior.
>
> Are you talking about having this trouble with the logging framework?
>
>   .Seth
>
>
>
> On 29 Oct 2017, at 10:20, william de ping wrote:
>
> Hi,
>>
>> I have this simple script :
>>
>> event bro_init()
>> {
>> local a=-3.019159e-8;
>> print "a",a;
>> local s=fmt("%e",a);
>> print "s",s;
>> }
>>
>> results :
>> a, -0
>> s, -3.019159e-08
>>
>> the printing of variable a is important because its -0 once written in a
>> log file.
>>
>> is there anyway of printing\writing large doubles ?
>>
>> Thanks
>> B
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>
> --
> Seth Hall * Corelight, Inc * www.corelight.com
>
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