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From: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:56:17 +0200
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Subject: LongType from user input
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Hi all,

I'm having quite a dilemma with the CompareWith attribute. The Problem is
that I have numeric IDs that I'd like to use as row keys, only that I also
have to offer a possibility to let users input them from std input. Since I
cannot ask my users to input an 8byte sequence representing the ID they'd
like, I was about to turn to UTF8, when I remembered that they are compared
lexicographically, so that 100 actually comes before 2, which kills key
slices. Also I cannot just code a converter in since this is supposed to be
a used with multiple columnfamilies, so just converting an integer read into
8bytes isn't going to work either.
Any tricks for this one?

Regards,
Chris

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Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I&#39;m having quite a dilemma with the CompareW=
ith attribute. The Problem is that I have numeric IDs that I&#39;d like to =
use as row keys, only that I also have to offer a possibility to let users =
input them from std input. Since I cannot ask my users to input an 8byte se=
quence representing the ID they&#39;d like, I was about to turn to UTF8, wh=
en I remembered that they are compared lexicographically, so that 100 actua=
lly comes before 2, which kills key slices. Also I cannot just code a conve=
rter in since this is supposed to be a used with multiple columnfamilies, s=
o just converting an integer read into 8bytes isn&#39;t going to work eithe=
r.
</div><div>Any tricks for this one?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div>=
<div>Chris</div>

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