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[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / lib / bigint.pl

diff --git a/lib/bigint.pl b/lib/bigint.pl
index bfd2efa..adeb17f 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/bigint.pl
+++ b/lib/bigint.pl
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ sub external { #(int_num_array) return num_str
 sub main'bneg { #(num_str) return num_str
     local($_) = &'bnorm(@_);
     vec($_,0,8) ^= ord('+') ^ ord('-') unless $_ eq '+0';
-    s/^H/N/;
+    s/^./N/ unless /^[-+]/; # works both in ASCII and EBCDIC
     $_;
 }