in reply to Re: unpack offset question
in thread unpack offset question

Thankyou for the kind response.
  • All field sizes are fixed and constant.
  • All fields are contiguous. There is no explicit 'padding' between fields regardless of the data types, size and allignment issues.
  • The binary fields are provided in Big Engined Format which is unsigned
  • ASCII strings are left align, null padded

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    Re^3: unpack offset question
    by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 28, 2009 at 18:55 UTC
      'Z6' for a NUL padded str 6-bytes long. The NULs, if any, are removed.
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