And here's a version with Data::Dumper and some config vars that also works

Neither this nor the rendition using Data::Dump works for me on Windows: 
C:\_32\pscrpt>type test3.pl

use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11133064
use warnings;

my $template = 'd<';
my $nv = 2.4;
$nv = 4135;                     # NOTE errors for this number
my $p = pack $template, $nv;
use Data::Dumper;
$Data::Dumper::Terse = $Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1;
my $s = Dumper $p;
print ">$s<\n";

system $^X, '-wle', "use strict; print unpack('H*', $s);";

C:\_32\pscrpt>perl test3.pl
>"\0\0\0\0\0'\260\@"
<
syntax error at -e line 1, at EOF
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

C:\_32\pscrpt>

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I guess it's something to do with Windows command line quoting rules.
Mind you, having it work on Windows specifically is not important.
Now that I have a working example, I can while away some time porting your fix to Windows when I have nothing better to do.

Thanks tybalt89 !!

Cheers,
Rob

Thanks

In reply to Re^4: pack() returns an unusable string by syphilis
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