February 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1184 pages
37h 17m
English
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pack 
packTEMPLATE,LIST
This function takes a LIST of
ordinary Perl values, converts them into a string of bytes according to
the TEMPLATE, and returns this string.
Templates for pack and unpack are described in Chapter 26.