I am a newbie's newby. I am taking an on-line course through a local university in AZ. My problem is that the book we are using for a textbook does not explain anything like what the instructor is asking for, and he doesn't answer his emails. He even gives references which do not even have anything to do with the question. So I am looking for an answer. There is more to the problem than what I am asking, but I can get the rest if I can figure out how to use unpack to come up with the ASCII values for the printable characters. Oh Yeah, when I do a perldocs -f unpack I get an error both on my Windows system and my UNIX (Solaris) system. Bob

In reply to Re: Re: ASCII Conversion by bent4gud
in thread ASCII Conversion by bent4gud

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