The following program does indeed print out 'ABCD': 
use strict;
my $foo = pack("cccc",65,66,67,68);
print $foo;

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What I do not understand is why it works. Page 757 of Camel3 says that pack "takes a LIST of ordinary Perl values and converts them into a string of bytes."

Now who says that "A" is a byte? Maybe my operating system uses Unicode and "A" is two bytes. Isn't ASCII a 7-bit encoding scheme? (A byte is eight bits, not 7.)

So why do the bytes that pack returns necessarily print out as 'ABCD' and not as gibberish?

In reply to Re: Re: int to ascii by sierrathedog04
in thread int to ascii by pchou

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