pack and unpack are, as a matter of fact a way to achieve what you want although it's not done in one step:
perl -e 'print join " ", map { chr(ord('A')+eval "0b$_") }  unpack "(A5)*", unpack "B*", pack "H*", "139686DA20C1"'

The first transformation is pack "H*", $str where the hexadecimal numbers are turned into binary data.

Then unpack "B*", $str; turns the binary data into a string consisting of the characters '0' and '1'.

unpack "(A5)*", $str; is one of the many ways to split a string every five characters.

Then, packing and unpacking those 5 bits strings into numbers would have been possible, but eval "0b$str" just does that in one step.
chr($nb + ord('A')) is the character at the position "position of A" + $nb. Which is what you want:)

In reply to Re: Handling binary by Eily
in thread Handling binary by G109B

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