in reply to Perl Zlib last block
To get ffff, don't ask for 4 nibbles, but 2:
$output =~ s/(.)/sprintf '%02x', ord $1/seg; # ^
You can also use
$output = unpack 'H*', $output;
instead of the s/// with /e. It should be faster.
map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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