What is meant by a 'pack' in perl?

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uday

  • Jun 8th, 2006
 

Hi folks!

Pack Converts a list into a binary representation

Takes an array or list of values and packs it into a binary structure, returning the string containing the structure

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aiyshwarya

  • Nov 21st, 2007
 

Takes a LIST of values and converts it into a string using the rules given by the TEMPLATE. The resulting string is the con-catenation of the converted values. Typically, each converted value looks like its machine-level representation. For example, on 32-bit machines a converted integer may be represented by a sequence of 4 bytes.

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