The Cookbook uses the following example (listed on page 4)
# get a 5-byte string, skip 3, grab 2 8-byte strings, then the rest
($leading, $s1, $s2, $trailing) = unpack("A5 x3 A8 A8 A*",$data);
x3 meaning to "ignore"
3 bytes (jump forwards), while
Xm means to jump
m bytes back.
A5 meaning to "get"
5 Ascii (space padded) bytes.
Another example would be to pack/unpack to/from binary or hexadecimal.
$string = "My uncle John is Jamaica";
$binary=unpack("B*",$string);
and
$string=pack("B*",$binary);
Similar for Hexadecimal...
$string = "My uncle John is Jamaica";
$hexadecimal=unpack("H*",$string);
$string=pack("H*",$hexadecimal);
Anyway, those were just the simple examples =)
Greetz
Beatnik
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