Same way in Perl or C: 

my $c= getc();
return $c
    if  $c < 0x80;
$c= getc() + (($c-0x80)<<8);
return $c
    if  $c < 0x4000
return getc() + (($c-0x4000)<<8);

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In Perl, getc() would be something like: 

sub getc { ord( substr($buf,0,1,'') ); }

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In C, I'd probably consume the buffer building a normalized buffer that I'd read from Perl via something like unpack "L*" (and thus mostly not deal with Perl data structures in C code). And I don't think I'd sweat the few extra arithmetic operations by resorting to switch(c>>6) { case 0: case 1: return c; case 2: return ...; case 3: return ...; }

- tye        

In reply to Re: How would you decode this? (3 steps) by tye
in thread [NOT] How would you decode this? by BrowserUk

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