Re: unpack format string for ignoring chars

Like this?

print join '|', unpack '( a4 x10 )2 a4', 'this not that this not that 
+this';

this|this|this
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Or was it like that:)

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Re: Re: unpack format string for ignoring chars by LanceDeeply (Chaplain) on Feb 13, 2004 at 21:51 UTC
thanks! i just didnt know how to use x properly, got a little confused reading the doc. i added x1 to the format string wherever i wanted to ignore a character `my $count = 0; foreach my $len (@lens) { if ( $count ++ ) { $format .= "x1"; } $format .= "A$len"; }` [download] does the deed nicely	[reply] [d/l]