#!/usr/bin/perl -l use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11133064 use warnings; my $template = 'd<'; my $nv = 2.4; $nv = 4135; # NOTE errors for this number my $p = pack $template, $nv; use Data::Dump qw(pp); my $s = (pp $p) =~ s/"(.*)"/qq($1)/sr; # tweak for different delimiter print ">$s<\n"; system $^X, '-wle', "use strict; print unpack('H*', $s);";