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packing into a byte tokenby dulac (Initiate) |
on Sep 21, 2011 at 00:28 UTC ( [id://927039]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
dulac has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: Greetings. I'm seeking wisdom from the monastery on handling creation of an array of bytes. I've done some research and it appears that I can use the pack command, but I am at a loss on how to obtain the results I seek. I need to construct a "token" formatted as:
I understand I can get the seconds since the epoch using time(), and I have the employee id as a 9 digit number - how do I format these into the above token and how do I create the xor check byte? Any and all assistance is greatly appreciated.
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