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in thread Interleaving bytes in a string quickly

More usually known simply as "a byte string".

A "byte string" means the same as a "string of bytes" to me (flour box = box of flour), and that's not what I meant by "8-bit string format". I was referring to one of Perl's string format, not what the value of the string.

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Re^46: Interleaving bytes in a string quickly
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 03, 2010 at 04:43 UTC

    Then you'll have to clarify what you do mean, rather than telling us what you don't.

    Because that phrase means nothing to me; nor anything apparently related, (other than this thread), to google.

    I was referring to one of Perl's string format, not what the value of the string.

    And I'm being neither rude nor pedantic when I say, that sentence doesn't parse to anything that I can make sense of either.

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      Perl has two string types/formats. One that can store 8-bit values (UTF8=0), and one that can store larger values (UTF8=1). I was referring to the former.
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        . One that can store 8-bit values (UTF8=0),

        O-kay. Now, isn't that where 1-character == 1-byte?

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