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in thread Pulling bytes out of string

Sure looks to me that the h (or H) formats are just what the doctor ordered.   (FYI:   the format-strings are defined, in very great detail, in perldoc pack.)

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Re^3: Pulling bytes out of string
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Oct 22, 2015 at 00:22 UTC

    See also perlpacktut.

    Give a man a fish:  <%-{-{-{-<

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