James Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue 01 Jul, Glyn Royds wrote: > > > > Back in March Alex reported that he had a port of 5.8.0 but his site is > > down :( Does anyone else know where this (or even 5.6) could be found? > > I'd also love to get my hands on a later version of Perl for > RISC OS, but I recall Alex Waugh saying that his port was not > complete and was very much alpha test only. > > > 5.005 doesn't get along too happily with the sprintf'ing (%b016) > > that I need :-( > > What is %b016 supposed to do? Perhaps it would be better to write a
It converts a number to binary, padded out to to 16 characters with 0's. As something of a perl novice I was about to start writing a routine to do the same when I discovered %(b/o/x)n (developing on a PC - sorry), wasn't looking forward to it though. Later, Glyn.
