Okay, that makes sense.

At this point it probably would make sense to expand on the problem that I'm trying to solve. Basically, what I need to do is take my hex string, split it into pairs and prepend those pairs with \x. Then I concatenate them all together, pack them and stick them into a DHCP packet. It looks something like this:
$theInt = 1501299200;
$theHex = sprintf("%lx", $theInt);

$hexPairs = split(/(\w{1,2})/, $theHex);
while $val (@hexPairs)
{
   if (!$thisPair eq "" )
   {
      $finalHex .= "\x".$thisPair;
   }
}
$bytes .= pack("C/a*", $finalHex);

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The resulting hex stuff should look like this: \x59\x7c\x02\x00 and if I replace $finalHex above with "\x59\x7c\x02\x00" then my code works fine (but that's not an acceptable solution because the initial integer isn't always going to be 1501299200).

I appreciate that this may not make a hell of a lot of sense or that it may be diffcult to follow what I'm trying to do so I am grateful for any help that you can give me.

Maybe I'm just overcomplicating things?

In reply to Re^4: Hex Question(s) by deadlock
in thread Hex Question(s) by deadlock

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