On Mon May 09 05:00:11 2011, jv wrote: > This is a bug report for perl from jvromans@squirrel.nl, > generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.14.0. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > [Please describe your issue here] > > Unpack character . (returns the number of bytes or characters (depending > on the selected encoding mode) read so far) is not documented in > perlfunc.pod. > > The documentation of pack / unpack is too messy to provide an easy > patch. > At lines 4042-43 of pod/perlfunc.pod (blead), I see: ##### . Null-fill or truncate to absolute position specified by the value. ##### Is that different from what you were looking for? Thank you very much. Jim KeenanThread Previous