Apparently what you want instead of this: 
my @charBits = split(//, unpack("b8", $temp));

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is rather something like this: 
my @charBits = split(//, unpack("b8", $char));

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But apart from that, you should test some value other than the tilde character, and make sure you figure out whether you want to use "b8" or "B8" as the formatting string for the unpack call.

As for doing 'unpack("b8", $temp)', it's hard for me to figure out what that actually does. Note that you get more output if you use "b*" there -- but that didn't help me at all, I still don't know what it's doing.

In reply to Re: using vec() and unpack() by graff
in thread using vec() and unpack() by Gerard

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