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Unless your ok with just using chop on the result — at which point it will only work if the input length is odd — it is impossible to recreate your original data since multiple inputs encode identically.

$ perl -e'print pack "H*", "abc";' | od -t x1 0000000 ab c0 0000002 $ perl -e'print pack "H*", "abc0";' | od -t x1 0000000 ab c0 0000002

If you don't care about preserving leading zeroes, you can use

my $bin = pack("H*", ( length($hex) % 2 ? '0' : '' ).$hex); ... ( my $hex = unpack('H*', $bin) ) =~ s/^0+(?!\z)//;

If you don't care about preserving leading zeroes, you can use

my $bin = pack("H*", "".reverse $hex); ... ( my $hex = reverse unpack('H*', $bin) ) =~ s/^0+(?!\z)//;

If you do care about preserving leading zeroes, you can use

my $bin = pack("NH*", length($hex), $hex) ... my ($length, $hex) = unpack('NH*', $bin); substr($hex, $length, length($hex), '');

In reply to Re: Reconstruct binary data saved with unpack("H*", $b) by ikegami
in thread Reconstruct binary data saved with unpack("H*", $b) by andreas1234567

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