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At 02:53 AM 9/18/00 -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: >Perhaps someone could attempt to write an explaination of pack and >unpack in completely Perl terms. No bits, no ints, no nybbles, no >IEEE floating point arithmetic, no prior knowledge of C necessary. I don't see how you could possibly do it without that any more than you can use numbers without understanding the range limits of integers and floating point roundoff. However, you're right, a tutorial is desperately needed. I rarely need pack/unpack but when I do, it takes me ages to figure out what to do. I don't think there's anything wrong with the interface though, it seems quite appropriate. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design TechnologiesThread Previous | Thread Next