perlquestion
arblargan
<p>Howdy Monks! I've got a question about what goes on behind the scenes when the function <code>unpack</code> is called. I'm trying to understand the results of a certain function for a script I inherited, but I can't figure out how the result is being calculated by Perl. See below for a snippet of the function.</p>
<code>
my $input = 0x916CD; #595661
my $unpacked = unpack "V", $input;
print($unpacked);
>>909457717 (0x36353935)
</code>
<p> I just can't seem to figure out, by hand, how Perl is unpacking the decimal value into that number. Can someone shed some light on what goes on behind the scenes in the <code>unpack</code> function that might be able to help me understand? Thanks!</p>