Dear monks,
let's set so double the killer delete select all.

Sorry. I'll try that again.

I am parsing binary data with unpack. The binary data consists of segments of six bytes. There are hundreds of such six-byte datums stored in a single binary string.

The binary data looks something like this: 

my $data = pack("H*", "0000230ebb0000002b0ece000000330ee200");

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I can do unpack("(CCSS)*", $data); and it will output an array like: [0,0,3619,187,0,0,3627,206,0,0,3635,226]

However, I would like it to output an array like: [[0,0,3619,187],[0,0,3627,206],[0,0,3635,226]]

i.e. so that each of the six-byte segments form an arrayref of their own.

I read the venerable node 539664 but was none the wiser.

Can unpack() do this or do I need to just loop over the string with substr() and unpack one segment at a time?

I hope this question was clear enough; it's been a long time since I've asked anything.

In reply to unpack into arrayrefs? by Anonymous Monk

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