I have a small number < 10 and need to smash it into a unit16. 

    $count=17767;
    $c16 = pack("S", $count);

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Congratulations, you did it on your first try. 

    printf("... c16=0x%04hx ...", 
        ..., $c16, ...;

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What makes you think printf's %x format wants to be given a string containing two bytes representing a packed value? %x wants a number. You know, like 15 or even '15'. %x doesn't magically decode whatever random packed format you throw at it and think "Hey! That might be a number packed in 'S' format. Why don't I interpret it that way in order to get a numeric value that I can then format into hexadecimal? I should!". What made you think it would?

You can just discard the rest of your hour of work.

Unpack?

Here you go: 

$count = unpack("S", $c16);

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- tye        

In reply to Re: Pack number to unsigned short (printf) by tye
in thread Pack number to unsigned short by BrianP

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