bytes chars 36353935 ----> 36 35 39 35 ----> 6 5 9 5 | | | | first 4 digits reverse | | | | 595661 -------------> 5956 ------> 6 5 9 5 #### #! /usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Test::More; sub what { my ($input) = @_; my $unpacked = unpack "V", $input; my $result = join "", map chr hex, sprintf("%x\n", $unpacked) =~ /(..)/g; is $result, reverse substr $input, 0, 4; } what($_) for 1000 .. 2000, 2e4, 3e5, 4e6, 5e7, 6e8, 7e9, 8e10, 9e11, 2 ** 64 - 3; done_testing(); #### reverse($input) % 10_000 #### ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord }map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,