On Saturday, May 11, 2002, at 03:09 , Beau E. Cox wrote:
> Hi - > There must be an easy way to do this...but I can't figure it out. I > want to > create a buffer of 8-bit bytes (to send to an external C++ application). > The > perl script creates values 0 <= value <= 255 (it's 8 bit audio data) and > I > want to put them into a perl scalar to pass to my C++ routine(s). I know > I > have to pass the scalar length also beacuse I cannot depend upon a NULL > terminator. have you paused to scope on perldoc -f pack and you didn't really make it clear if you wanted that as a signed or unsigned bit bucket.... some playing in that space would be: http://www.wetware.com/drieux/CS/lang/Perl/Beginners/Sys/packBytes.txt ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]