Actually, it's the same results - these templates apparently know whether they're on a big-endian or little-endian machine, and adjust themselves accordingly to standardise the output.

Hm. That is a surprise.

Now I am really confused by the apparent nybble swapping:

print unpack 'b*', "\x12\x34";;
0100 1000 0010 1100
   2    1    4    3

print unpack 'B*', "\x12\x34";;
0001 0010 0011 0100
   1    2    3    4

print unpack 'b*', pack 'v', 0x1234;;
0010 1100 0100 1000
   4    3    2    1

print unpack 'b*', pack 'n', 0x1234;;
0100 1000 0010 1100
   2    1    4    3

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I can't make sense of that at all.

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In reply to Re^3: Bit order in bytes by BrowserUk
in thread Bit order in bytes by geoffleach

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