in reply to ASCII Conversion

ord EXPR
ord
Returns the numeric (ASCII or Unicode) value of the first character of EXPR. If EXPR is omitted, uses $_. For the reverse, see /chr. See utf8 for more about Unicode.

See your perldoc or the nearest Camel for usage of unpack.

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Re: Re: ASCII Conversion
by bent4gud (Initiate) on Oct 06, 2002 at 21:27 UTC
    I appreciate the fact that ord does what I want, but I must use unpack. See my reply to fruiture. Bob
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