question about pack

lightoverhead has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks

I may have a silly question.

When I use pack template "c" which is 8-bit value integer, what will "pack" pack the data if the value I feed the pack is above 255?

How will "pack" arrange it in bits?

Thanks

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Re: question about pack by TomDLux (Vicar) on Oct 15, 2013 at 00:14 UTC
Why don't you try it and tell us? Something like ... `for my $data ( 250 .. 260 ) { my $packed = pack 'c', $data; printf "%X => %X\n", $data, $packed; }` [download] As Occam said: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: question about pack by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Oct 15, 2013 at 03:02 UTC
... or perhaps better as: `>perl -wMstrict -le "my $cp = pack 'c*', 256 .. 260, 320 .. 324; print qq{'$cp'}; "` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: question about pack by lightoverhead (Pilgrim) on Oct 16, 2013 at 01:24 UTC
They are all "0"	[reply]