new

Build a Math::GMP object from a string or integer scalar.

Synopsis

my $x = Math::GMP->new(123);
my $y = Math::GMP->new('123456789012345678901234567890');
my $z = Math::GMP->new('abcd', 36);         # base 36

What you get back

A blessed reference of class Math::GMP. You can feed it to any overloaded operator, or to the named methods on this page.

The first argument is read as a string. A leading + is stripped, and embedded spaces and underscores are removed — so '1_000_000' and ' 1 000 000 ' both parse. When no base is given the string must match /^-?[\dxA-Fa-f]+$/, which admits the usual 0x-prefixed hex form; anything else croaks with Argument to Math::GMP->new is not a string representing an integer. With an explicit base (2–36) the usual GMP digit-set applies.

Edge cases

• Missing or false first argument → Math::GMP of 0.

• Floating-point input is not special-cased here; you get whatever libgmp’s parser makes of the stringified value.

• Base 0 (the default) means “guess from the prefix”: 0x → hex, 0 → octal, otherwise decimal.