Perl Quickie

[Jay Di Silvestri]

I think that the answer is in the pack function, but I don't work with
hex numbers enough to get working code.   I'm forwarding this to the
group list.  Perhaps someone will know.  I was surprised to find out
that print "\x23", will print that character, but $foo="23"; print
"\x${foo}"  will not yield the same result.

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William Smith wrote:

> Hi --
>   I got your name from the Perl user group page.
> I am in Novato. Learning Perl... stuck. (I am a C programmer).
> I want to create a file and fill it with 256 bytes 0x00 -> 0xff.
> Everything I try writes text representations of the numbers.
> Can you help?
> Or if you cannot, can you direct me to someone who could.
> Thanks. Sorry to trouble you.
> Also please send info on the user group.
> Thanks.
> -- William Smith
>    netsmith at well.com