O Wise Ones,
I am using Image::ExifTool to read a custom (unknown) tag from a TIFF file, and it is returning the following:
Exif 0x866c    : 76 73 0 4 244 1 0 0 0 ...
I need to code this into a series of 32-bit values. For example, the first four values (76,73,0,4) would be expressed in hex as 0x0400494c (note the bytes are reversed). Similarly, the next four values (244,1,0,0) would be expressed in hex as 0x000001f4. I'm currently doing this with some splits:
$offset = join('',reverse map { sprintf '%02x',$_ } (split(' ',$info))[0..4];
then converting to decimal to use as a byte offset:
seek(FILE,hex($offset),0);
Is this really the best way to do it, or is there some pack-fu that I should use? Thanks!

In reply to Converting string of decimal values from Image::ExifTool by Anonymous Monk

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