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Re^3: What I Most Recently Learned in Perl, But Should Have Already Knownby GrandFather (Saint) |
on Aug 16, 2006 at 23:19 UTC ( [id://567792]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I learned something about pack/unpack writing Updated QuickTime format movie file dumper. But the cool thing I learned writing that code was using can to assist in the context of a "dispatch by name":
$key is an "atom" code from the file being parsed. If there is a handler for the atom $self->$member dispatches to the code to handle it. One neat thing about this is that a derived class can add handlers and the parser just takes it all in its stride. I reckon that's pretty cool - perhaps even elegant. :) One way to do a binary conversion is:
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