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I guess I'll have to leave off the last two parts which in this application are optional, and add them to PACK_TEMPLATE programatically after the length field ... hmm, that's OK.
No, create a function with the 2 optional parts as input and the string $pack_template as output.
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Re^4: Factoring out common code in two methods of a class
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 05, 2009 at 20:59 UTC
    No, create a function with the 2 optional parts as input and the string $pack_template as output.

    What!? What possible merit is there is creating a function to do concatenation? Perl has an operator to do that: 

     my $packed = pack PACK_TEMPLATE . (condition ? OPTIONAL_ADDITION : ''
+), @bits;

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