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For those of you who are too lazy to run pg's code, here's the output ;-)

=========================
Case 1: create string from pack, with use bytes

char semantics: ЖДІ Length = 4, Content = 198.144.196.178
byte semantics: ЖДІ Length = 4, Content = 198.144.196.178
400.306
=========================
Case 2: create string from pack, with use utf8

char semantics: ЖДІ Length = 4, Content = 198.144.196.178
byte semantics: ЖДІ Length = 4, Content = 198.144.196.178
400.306
=========================
Case 3: create string from \x{}

char semantics: ЖДІ Length = 2, Content = 400.306
byte semantics: ЖДІ Length = 4, Content = 198.144.196.178
400.306
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Update I'm on perl 5.6.0 on solaris, so it's probably my own problem ;-). Full spec:

> perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuratio
+n:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.6, archname=sun4-solaris
    uname='sunos fluidy 5.6 generic_105181-23 sun4d sparc sunw,sparcse
+rver-1000 '
    config_args='-Dcc=gcc -Dprefix=/opt/local/gnu'
    hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultipl
+icity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=u
+ndef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.95.2 19991024 (release)
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/g
+nu/include -I/opt/local/X11/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSE
+T_BITS=64'
    ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/g
+nu/include -I/opt/local/X11/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSE
+T_BITS=64'
    stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1
+6
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
+ lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags ='-L/opt/local/lib -L/opt/local/gnu/lib -L/opt/l
+ocal/X11/lib '
    libpth=/usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib /opt/local/lib /opt/local/gnu/lib /op
+t/local/X11/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lsec
    libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags=' -W,l-E -G -L/opt/local/lib -L/opt/
+local/gnu/lib -L/opt/local/X11/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
  Built under solaris
  Compiled at Dec 21 2000 19:25:43
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-- Hofmator

In reply to Re: Re: use bytes and length problem by Hofmator
in thread use bytes and length problem by muad33b

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