Great, I really couldn't find that out myself!

I actually tried running my script (it's fully Perl, not from commandline) also on a PowerPC. Obviously it returned another decimal value. I understand why, and it is really not a big issue. But I'm just wondering: Is it also possible to tell Perl how to treat a particular variable or value? Or let it run a function as being a in little-endian environment?
I actually thought that "<" would make Perl do that. But so far, no luck. Or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks again. You really helped me out again!

#!/usr/bin/perl -w


use strict;

my $hexvalue = $ARGV[0];
print unpack "L<", pack "H*", $hexvalue;

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In reply to Re^3: [pack]little endian timestamp to decimal value by timtowtdi
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