Hi, This is my first post to Perlmonks, so please let me know if I've posted this in the wrong place and failed to search the proper category for info before posting. I have been asked to port some Java code to Perl, but am not clear on how to do this exactly. Hoping someone a bit more familiar with Java may be able to point me in the right direction? The method takes a 128-bit hex string and manipulates it, but I am not quite clear on how this would translate to Perl. Sample Java code I'd like to port to Perl: 
private byte[] getBytes(String hexText)  {
   ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
   StringTokenizer stToken = new StringTokenizer(hexText, "-", false);
   while (stToken.hasMoreTokens()) {
       String token = stToken.nextToken();
       int i = Integer.parseInt(token, 16);
       if (token.length() > 2) {
           byte b = (byte) (i >>> 8);
           baos.write(b);
       }
       baos.write((byte) i);
   }
   return baos.toByteArray();
}

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