If you've got a full installation of perl on the system, you can use
perldoc -f pack
to get details on the function (unpack, the sister function may also
provide further information). If this doesn't help, feel free to drop me
a line with a more specific question.
Take care,
Mark.
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Chris Love wrote:
> Since I do not know Perl very well I would like some help on the pack
> function. I assume it is a function, based on its context, to convert
> strings to bytes and bytes to strings. I am having a time finding
> documentation on this function. The first parameter can be either H or
> C and variations thereof. I realize there may be other values that can
> be used here, but those are the ones I see the most.
>
> Thanks for any help here.
>
>
> Chris Love
>
> Extreme Web Works
>
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>
> 919-836-0998
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