Re^5: syswrite numbers, not strings

Remember this is Perl, where conversion between strings and numbers is almost always automatic and transparent, so "tinkering" might be too strong a word. Although one could argue the documentation isn't perfectly clear on this, it's at least strongly implied that syswrite writes a byte array / string, not individual numbers as bytes, so the 45 gets converted to "45", which is 0x34 0x35. (That's one of the reasons pack exists.)

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Re^6: syswrite numbers, not strings by akujbida (Acolyte) on Dec 18, 2014 at 11:45 UTC
Indeed, and I think that sums up the situation very well. I have said tinkering, because in this case it bit me, though I have almost certainly had beneficial use of the 'tinkering' at other times.	[reply]