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Peek and Poke in pure Perl (no modules) using pack and unpack have been around for a very long time.

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Re^2: Synthetic strings dereference arbitrary pointers
by diotalevi (Canon) on Aug 03, 2004 at 16:46 UTC
    Yeah, plain peek is easy. Its the poking that I thought normally required either XS or that perl 4 typeglob bug. Now I just get "Can't coerce GLOB to string in substr." How would you update Larry's poke for perl 5?
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