On Aug 10, Hamish Whittal said:
>I have an octet string that I need to print. When I print it, I get some
>rubbish on the screen. I would therefore like to translate this to
>something printable.
>
>e.g I have 110110101100010011111011 and I want to print this as 11011010
>1000100 11111011
You want to print it as sets of 8 bits? There are many ways. Here are
two:
while ($output =~ /(.{8})/g) {
print "$1 ";
}
and
my $len = length $output;
my $i = 0;
while ($i < $len) {
print substr($output, 8 * $i++, 8), " ";
}
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