in reply to Hexadecimal to binary

One way:
use strict; use warnings; my $h = 'F23CC481AAE190180000000014000008'; my $bin; $bin .= sprintf '%04b', hex $_ for split //, $h; print $bin; __END__ 1111001000111100110001001000000110101010111000011001000000011000000000 +0000000000000000000000000000010100000000000000000000001000

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