I am running Perl 5.8.0 on Linux.
-----Original Message-----
From: Randy W. Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sun 7/11/2004 11:01 AM
To: Youssef Eldakar
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Packing a Hexadecimal String
On 7/11/2004 3:43 AM, Youssef Eldakar wrote:
> I am trying to pack a hexadecimal string from a text file. I am using the H
conversion with the pack function. Strangely, 0xC2 values are appearing in the
resulting byte stream right before bytes whose value exceeds 0x7F.
>
> To illustrate, the following works as expected:
>
> $ perl -e 'print pack("H*","207F10")'|od -Ax -tx1
> 000000 20 7f 10
> 000003
>
> However, replacing the "7F" with "80" in the pack function, results in the
appearance of the "C2" in the dump:
>
> $ perl -e 'print pack("H*","208010")' | od -Ax -tx1
> 000000 20 c2 80 10
> 000004
Right now I'm on a Windows 2000 machine running perl 5.6.1. I get the
expected:
[X:\home\Administrator]
$ perl -e "print pack('H*','207F10')" | od -Ax -tx1
000000 20 7f 10
000003
[X:\home\Administrator]
$ perl -e "print pack('H*','208010')" | od -Ax -tx1
000000 20 80 10
000003
When I get a chance I'll check on my laptop which is running Debian
GNU/Linux with perl 5.8.3. What are you running?
Randy.
