my $data_ref = pack ('C*', (0x81 , 0x55, 0x00, 0xE0));

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That is close to what you want. It would have worked on a slightly older version of Perl. However, p5p have decided that packing binary structures in Perl should honor Unicode (don't get me started). So you get problematic results: 

 $ say "0x81, 0x55, 0x00, 0xE0"
129
85
0
224
 $ say "unpack 'U0C*', pack 'C*', 0x81, 0x55, 0x00, 0xE0"
194
129
85
0
195
160

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You're first and last values, having their 8th bit set, got turned into UTF-8 byte sequences (2 bytes each). You can prepend "U0" to the front of the pack template to avoid such.

- tye        

In reply to Re: How to pass a pointer to an array of 'unsigned char' C data type with Win32::API ("U0") by tye
in thread How to pass a pointer to an array of 'unsigned char' C data type with Win32::API by apeks_okad

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