Is substr() offset always in bytes?

Note that the "I" format can result in more than 4 bytes on some platforms.

Yeah, I suppose you could use 'L' then.

I suppose you could figure out the size of integers with code like: 

@b = unpack('C*', pack('I', 0));
return scalar(@b);

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Then you could make the endian code more generic with: 

@b = unpack('C*', pack('I', 0));
$sizeof_long = scalar(@b);

@c = (1..$sizeof_long);
$i = pack('I', hex('0x0'.join('0',reverse @c)));
$big = pack('C'.$sizeof_long, reverse @c);
$lit = pack('C'.$sizeof_long, @);

if ( substr($i, 0, $sizeof_long) eq $big ) {
  return 'big';
}
elsif ( substr($i, 0, $sizeof_long) eq $lit ) {
  return 'little';
}
else {
  return "strange";
}

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In reply to Re: (tye)Re: Detecting machine Endian-ness by LunaticLeo
in thread Detecting machine Endian-ness by LunaticLeo

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