First, check
pack:
> V An unsigned long (32-bit) in "VAX" (little-endian) order.
Have you noticed the pattern?
bytes chars
36353935 ----> 36 35 39 35 ----> 6 5 9 5
| | | |
first 4 digits reverse | | | |
595661 -------------> 5956 ------> 6 5 9 5
It works for any input greater or equal to 1000:
#! /usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Test::More;
sub what {
my ($input) = @_;
my $unpacked = unpack "V", $input;
my $result = join "", map chr hex, sprintf("%x\n", $unpacked) =~ /
+(..)/g;
is $result, reverse substr $input, 0, 4;
}
what($_) for 1000 .. 2000,
2e4, 3e5, 4e6, 5e7, 6e8, 7e9, 8e10, 9e11, 2 ** 64 - 3;
done_testing();
Update:
For numbers fitting into integer, you can also use
reverse($input) % 10_000
($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,
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