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Pack/Unpack Tutorial (aka How the System Stores Data)

by pfaut (Priest)
on Jan 06, 2003 at 16:56 UTC ( [id://224666]=perltutorial: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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        struct SupplyRequest {
            time_t request_time;    // time request was entered
    ...
            short quantity;         // quantity needed
            short urgent;           // request is urgent
        };
    
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        $rec = pack( "l i Z32 s2", time, $emp_id, $item, $quan, $urgent);
    
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        Offset   Contents (increasing addresses left to right)
             0   160  44  19  62| 41  82   3   0| 98 111 120 101 115  32 1
    +11 102
    ...
                       p   a   p   e   r   c   l   i   p   s
            32     0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0|  2   0|  1   0
                  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00| 02  00| 01  00
    
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        ($order_time, $monk, $itemname, $quantity, $ignore) =
            unpack( "l i Z32 s2", $rec );
    
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        pack('a8',"hello") produces "hello\0\0\0"
        pack('Z8',"hello") produces "hello\0\0\0"
    ...
        unpack('Z8',"hello\0\0\0") produces "hello"
        unpack('A8',"hello   ") produces "hello"
        unpack('A8',"hello\0\0\0") produces "hello"
    
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        ord(pack('b8','00100110')) produces 100 (4 + 32 + 64)
        ord(pack('B8','00100110')) produces 38 (32 + 4 + 2)
    
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        pack('h4','1234') produces 0x21,0x43
        pack('H4','1234') produces 0x12,0x34
    
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    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    use strict;
    ...
    DumpScalar($rec);
    $rec = pack('H4',"1234");                # should produce 0x12,0x34
    DumpScalar($rec);
    

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