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True, but in all fairness I'm new, so I need help identifying what fish I need to fish for ;). At least I'm learning to fish in the Perl pond.

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Re^4: help figuring out what a section of script does
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Mar 19, 2017 at 20:59 UTC

    I'm not sure what you mean here. The purpose of my post was simpy to provide some documentary clarification for a point made by the Anonymous Monk.


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Re^4: help figuring out what a section of script does
by stevieb (Canon) on Mar 19, 2017 at 21:17 UTC

    Anonymous Monk mentioned unpack, so AnomalousMonk posted the documentation for that function, along with the documentation for pack, so that you could get a better understanding of what they actually do (essentially, elaborating on anonymonk's answer).