I'm sure there has to be a better way to do this (read: this could be way off the mark), but assuming you're referring to Crypt::RC4, try the following:
use Crypt::RC4;
my $key = "abcdefghijklm";
my $plaintext = "Hello, World!";
my $encrypted = RC4($key, $plaintext);
print $encrypted, "\n";
my @characters;
for (split //, $encrypted) {
push @characters, ord($_);
}
print @characters, "\n";
$encrypted = "";
for (@characters) {
$encrypted .= chr($_);
}
print $encrypted, "\n";
my $decrypted = RC4($key, $encrypted);
print $decrypted, "\n";
This basically just uses ord to return the numeric values of the encrypted string and place them in @characters. Probably not what you're looking for, but it can't hurt (can it? ;). I'm also curious, why exactly do you want to do this?