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I decided one day that I want to master Perl's pack() and unpack() functions to be able to manipulate data in Perl efficiently.
Perl's pack and unpack are two functions for transforming data according to a user-defined template, between the guarded way Perl stores values and some well-defined representation as might be required in the environment of a Perl program. Unfortunately, they're also two of the most misunderstood and most often overlooked functions that Perl provides.
As I wrote before, my way of learning these complex functions were to make a cheat sheet first with all the template parameters and then just spend a day reading more about them and experimenting.
As I usually print cheat sheets two pages per side and the pack/unpack cheat sheet consumed just one page, I added Perl's printf/sprintf format and attribute summary.
Here is how I printed this cheat sheet:
(Sorry for the bad quality, I shot it with my camera phone)
Download Perl's pack/unpack and printf Cheat Sheet
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Microsoft Word 2000 format (.doc):
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Thanks!
My perl cheat sheet compilation has been updated with this one per your request :)
http://www.scottklarr.com/topic/106/perl-cheat-sheets/
Handy cheat sheet, ta! Could benefit from a few examples at the end, but dead useful information nonetheless. Smart!
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