Re^3: I've muddled my bit and byte formats.

Note that

"\x01" & 1
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equals 0, not 1. See perldoc perlop "Bitwise String Operators" for why.

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Re^4: I've muddled my bit and byte formats. by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Oct 10, 2018 at 04:41 UTC
murrayn: ikegami beat me to it, but some other examples: `c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le "print qq{\x01} & 1; print qq{\cA} & 1; print qq{\x31} & 1; print '1' & 1; " Argument "^A" isn't numeric in bitwise and (&) at -e line 1. 0 Argument "^A" isn't numeric in bitwise and (&) at -e line 1. 0 1 1` [download] Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: I've muddled my bit and byte formats. by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 10, 2018 at 04:34 UTC
But `"1" & 1` would.	[reply] [d/l]