Wikipedia says: The byte ... is an ordered collection of bits, in which each bit denotes the binary value of 1 or 0. The size of a byte is typically hardware dependent, but the modern de facto standard is 8 bits, as this is a convenient power of 2.

I am referring to an ordered collection of 8 bits.

And an 8 bit byte can vaiously contain unsigned integers 0-255, or signed integers -127-127, or 8 discrete boolean values.

Or 8 bits of a stream of HDMI information, as is the case here.

Thanks for the quotes. They said it much better than I did. You're trying to tell me that a byte of HDMI info on disk is suddenly not a byte of HDMI info if I place it in a Perl var, and that doesn't fly.

In reply to Re^61: Interleaving bytes in a string quickly by ikegami
in thread Interleaving bytes in a string quickly by BrowserUk

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