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From:
demerphq
Date:
January 9, 2012 07:37
Subject:
Re: pack and ASCII
Message ID:
CANgJU+UMidCpJwD=-ZSkFdUVa+0gh6s9R-9QLGiP3yEMURaWag@mail.gmail.com
On 9 January 2012 12:30, John P. Linderman (jpl) <jpl@research.att.com> wrote:
> According to perlfunc.pod, about pack:
>
> The TEMPLATE is a sequence of characters that give the order and type
> of values, as follows:
>
> a A string with arbitrary binary data, will be null padded.
> A A text (ASCII) string, will be space padded.
> Z A null-terminated (ASCIZ) string, will be null padded.
>
> The reference to ASCII (and ASCIZ) seems to be out of date, given recent
> unicode efforts.
Er, I dont get it. ASCII and ASCIIZ arent going to stop working just
because we have improved our unicode support.
Yves
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