On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:37:46PM +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There is no string type built out of native eight-bit bytes.
>
> In the good ol'days, one could usefully use regexes on 8-bit binary data,
> eg
>
> open G, 'myfile.gif' or die;
> read G, $buf, 8192 or die;
> if ($buf =~ /^GIF89a\x08\x02/) {
> .....
>
> where it was clear to everyone that we are checking whether the first few
> bytes of the file contain (0x47, 0x49, ..., 0x02)
>
> Is this sort of thing now completely dead in the Brave New World of
Of course not, I do not remember forbiddding \xHH. The default of
data coming in from filehandles could still be opaque 8-bit bytes.
> Unicode, Locales etc etc? (yes, there's always pack, but pack is so... errr....
> hmmmmmm ....)
> Dave.
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