Honorable Monks,
An application reads binary data from an external system, and saves it using $h = unpack("H*", $b). If I try to reconstruct the binary data with $b = pack("H*", $h), the binary data will sometimes have a trailing null byte. Is it possible to make sure the binary data as it were (i.e. never add the null byte)?
A little code sample to illustrate the problem indicates that is works when input length is even only:
$ cat pack.t
use strict;
use warnings;
use Test::More qw /no_plan/;
my @arr = (0 .. 9, 'a' .. 'f');
my $hexdata = q{};
while (@arr) {
$hexdata .= shift @arr;
my $binary_data = pack("H*", $hexdata);
cmp_ok(unpack('H*', $binary_data), 'eq', $hexdata);
}
__END__
$ perl pack.t
not ok 1
# Failed test at pack.t line 11.
# got: '00'
# expected: '0'
ok 2
not ok 3
# Failed test at pack.t line 11.
# got: '0120'
# expected: '012'
ok 4
not ok 5
# Failed test at pack.t line 11.
# got: '012340'
# expected: '01234'
ok 6
not ok 7
# Failed test at pack.t line 11.
# got: '01234560'
# expected: '0123456'
ok 8
not ok 9
# Failed test at pack.t line 11.
# got: '0123456780'
# expected: '012345678'
ok 10
not ok 11
# Failed test at pack.t line 11.
# got: '0123456789a0'
# expected: '0123456789a'
ok 12
not ok 13
# Failed test at pack.t line 11.
# got: '0123456789abc0'
# expected: '0123456789abc'
ok 14
not ok 15
# Failed test at pack.t line 11.
# got: '0123456789abcde0'
# expected: '0123456789abcde'
ok 16
1..16
# Looks like you failed 8 tests of 16.
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