Re^3: unpack in incrementing variables

I think people were inclined to show the how because the why is in the docs:

unpack TEMPLATE,EXPR: "unpack" does the reverse of "pack": it takes a string and expands it out into a list of values. (In scalar context, it returns merely the first value produced.)

But I did it because i hadnt had my coffee before I posted (was waiting for it finish being made) and didnt read the question properly. Luckily the coffee was finished just after I hit submit so I realized the error and fixed it right after. :-)

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Re^4: unpack in incrementing variables by GrandFather (Saint) on Oct 14, 2005 at 10:31 UTC
Funny how one can read the docs and see what one wants to see. I read that a day ago when I was trying to figure the problem out and thought "I yes, a number is stored as a string of bytes so that should be fine". Argh. Perl is Huffman encoded by design.	[reply]