Re^3: unpack in incrementing variables

Counter intuitively (for me at least):

print unpack ('B16', pack('n', $_))."\n" for (250..260);

0000000011111010
0000000011111011
0000000011111100
0000000011111101
0000000011111110
0000000011111111
0000000100000000
0000000100000001
0000000100000010
0000000100000011
0000000100000100
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the "network" format (big endian) does what I want on a little endian (Windows) system.

Perl is Huffman encoded by design.

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Re^4: unpack in incrementing variables by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 14, 2005 at 02:32 UTC
Thanks. I was going to check that, but I was called away. I figured a partial post would guide someone on the right path.	[reply]