Re: Data Conversion ?

2009-11-07 Thread Alexander Krasnorutsky
On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 17:21 -0500, Nathan Gibbs wrote: How would I get the length of a string as returned by length () into a 4 byte unsigned integer in network byte order Thanks -- But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake. And

Re: Data Conversion ?

2009-11-07 Thread Nathan Gibbs
* Alexander Krasnorutsky wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 17:21 -0500, Nathan Gibbs wrote: How would I get the length of a string as returned by length () into a 4 byte unsigned integer in network byte order Thanks It's simple. $unsigned_4byte_int = pack 'N', length($your_string);

Re: Data Conversion ?

2009-11-07 Thread John W. Krahn
Nathan Gibbs wrote: How would I get the length of a string as returned by length () into a 4 byte unsigned integer in network byte order my $length = pack 'N', length $string; John -- The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human