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How does backing up several bytes work with unpack? (a bug?) (was: Re^2: Can unpack add zero bytes before converting?)

by vr (Curate)
on Sep 13, 2021 at 20:40 UTC ( [id://11136722]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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    say for unpack '(VX2)*', "\1\1\1\1";    # why 2 items?
say for unpack '(VX3)*', "\1\1\1\1";

'X' outside of string in unpack         # how's that?

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