Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and chris brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whispered:
| I would prefer to write each record using pack, but I
| can't see how to elegantly get pack to zero-fill
| without using sprintf. And I kind of feel like once
| I'm using sprintf I might as well ONLY use sprintf for
| the whole record. And *that* doesn't feel very
| Perlish to me, so I suspect there's a different
| solution.
Nope, pack works on bytes. If you want to pad your output, you need to use
something like sprintf. See perlfunc:
· You must yourself do any alignment or
padding by inserting for example enough
`'x''es while packing. There is no way to
pack() and unpack() could know where the
bytes are going to or coming from.
Therefore `pack' (and `unpack') handle
their output and input as flat sequences
of bytes.
-spp
