Re^2: Shorter ID Codes

I can't be the only experienced perl hacker who finds pack() and unpack() to be a complete headfuck. I can never remember which of them to use, and can never figure out exactly what template to pass to them.

Does anyone know of a good tutorial?

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Re^3: Shorter ID Codes
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Oct 29, 2004 at 08:27 UTC

Confession of a Perl Hacker (guy also didn't know how to use pack/unpack)
Pack/Unpack Tutorial (aka How the System Stores Data) (tutorial in Tutorials )

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