What am I doing wrong?
while (<STDIN>) {
        chomp;
        $Pack = pack("H2", $_);
        print ":$_: packs to :$Pack:\n";
        $Un = unpack("H2", $Pack);
        print ":$Pack: unpacks to :$Un:\n";
}

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I'm getting:
-1
:-1: packs to :Ñ:
:Ñ: unpacks to :d1:
-2
:-2: packs to :Ò:
:Ò: unpacks to :d2:
-3
:-3: packs to :Ó:
:Ó: unpacks to :d3:
and so on, thru 9. The commercial software is giving me the correct packed character. How can I unpack it to the original negative number (or really, a string of "-1")?

Thanks,
Kyle

Mini-edit by castaway, swapped runaway bold tag for a br, swapped strange chars for &#xd1; etc (as my browser killed em in the first edit, oops)

In reply to H2 pack/unpack not working for negative numbers by Qckng

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