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Do you necessarily need to unpack the data before using it? Given that nature of what you require, the most natural fix to me would be using a regular expression. Specifically, I would replace every set of four letters with their transposition: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my @lines = ('45d2ff76893a0033', '45d239a7dd200116');

for my $line (@lines) {
    $line =~ s/(.{4})(.{4})/$2$1/g;
}
print join "\n", @lines;

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Update:and since you've changed your spec, a one-liner:

s/(.{4})(.{4})/$2$1/g for @lines;

Note that the new code you've posted does not compile.

Regarding your statement that "Efficiency is critical", that is a bad starting point - premature optimization is the root of all evil. Make it work first. If it is too slow, profile it and attack bottlenecks.

In reply to Re: Word reverse by kennethk
in thread Word reverse by amigero

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