After studying your updates, private messages, and documentation for 'pack', I was able to fix my previous code by packing one extra (arbitrary) character, and not unpacking it. However, I noticed that the 'pack' was overkill. I could concatenate three extra nulls to the end of the original ASCII string and unpack as much as necessary. The length ($l) has to be twice what it was before because now I am unpacking two hex characters for every one ASCII character that I had been packing. 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Test::More tests=>4;

my @examples = (
    [qw( example.    6578616d706c652e        )],
    [qw( example.1   6578616d706c652e31000000)],
    [qw( example.12  6578616d706c652e31320000)],
    [qw( example.123 6578616d706c652e31323300)],
);

foreach my $example(@examples) {
    my ($Origin_Host_CER, $required) = @$example;

    my $l = 8*int((length($Origin_Host_CER)+3)/4);
    my $result = unpack("H$l", $Origin_Host_CER . "\x00" x 3);

    is($result, $required, $Origin_Host_CER);
}

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RESULTS

1..4
ok 1 - example.
ok 2 - example.1
ok 3 - example.12
ok 4 - example.123

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Bill

In reply to Re^2: Align string on a 32-bit boundary with padding by BillKSmith
in thread Align string on a 32-bit boundary with padding by Lucas Rey

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