I've never used pack() in any useful form (shame on me) before and i'm using win2k, so this must look hideous:

H:\>perl -e "$bin='100110101111011010101110000001001100011010000110011
+101101110010000101110000001001100111011110110001101100110111010100110
+000001001000011000000100000011100100111011110110010001100011011010100
+110101101100000010010010110011101100000010000101110000101101010011000
+000100110011101000011010110110101001100101000010110110100101100111011
+000100110000001001110111000010110100101101100011000010110000001001100
+011001001110101001101000011000101110101001100010011000000100001011100
+001011010100110000001000000111001001110111101100100011000110110101001
+101011011001110100010100001011010010000010001101100100011010100110010
+011100010111000000100101000101001011001110110110011100010111010100110
+100101100111011001010000'; $l=length($bin);$a = pack \"b$l\", $s; pri
+nt $a;"

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Output:
You can't solve a problem in the same mind which created the problem. -Albert Einstein

Edit:3 Seconds later...b*! i knew there had to be a way to stuff in all input bytes. i simultaneously saw waswas-fng's post, and spotted that line in perldoc -f pack. ah well.

In reply to Re: Puzzle by charnos
in thread Puzzle by /dev/null

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