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pack and unpack
But more than any other piece of Perl, the *only* way to understand pack & unpack, is to get yourself a REPL and sit and play.
— BrowserUk in Re^5: How do unpack templates work
Tutorials
Threads
- Mystery! Logical explanation?
- Re^3: Best technique to code/decode binary data for inter-machine communication?
- How to easily convert the pack function from little endian to big endian
- String to hex
- Missing byte using unpack, pack, read(in terms of bytes)
- How do unpack templates work
- Handling Hex data with Dynamic unpack
- Print hex data in ASCII format as is
- Unpacking variable length bit fields
- What are pack/unpack used for?
- Re: Why is the size even bigger after pack?
- Convert to Hexadecimal
- Function to produce formatted ord values of a string
- ActivePerl on Win32 storing integers as strings?
- Fast - Compact That String
- Re: decimal to binary
- Run length encode a bit vector
- A way to pack string into another light weight structure
- pack and unpack trouble
- Extracting Bit Fields (Again)
- generating an encoded text
- Index a file with pack for fast access
- Data structures benchmark(pack vs. arrays vs. hashes vs. strings)
- Fast Way to Split String in to Chunk of Equal Length
- comparison of packed signed integers
- Just another unpack hacker
- A little win
- 3-byte representation
- unpacking mixed ascii & utf16 null termed strings
- Simple perl encoder
- packing into a byte token
Related functions
REPL
perl -MDevel::REPL -e "Devel::REPL->new->run"