Hi Chas., On 5/8/09, Chas. Owens <chas.ow...@gmail.com> wrote: > The place to go is http://perldoc.perl.org, and in your case > http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/pack.html and > http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/unpack.html. You can also get these > docs on your machine by saying > > perldoc -f pack > perldoc -f unpack > > The key with pack and unpack is to use the right template character. > In the example, I used l which will turn a Perl number in to a binary > signed 32 bit integer. If I had wanted them to be unsigned I could > have used L. The documentation for pack lists what the various > templates are and what they do. The unpack function uses the same > templates, but in reverse.
I see; thanks! I was reading perldoc on the Web; didn't realize a -f was required for the command line. It's quite clear it's needed if I had read the man pages of perldoc...... Thanks! Ray -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
