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| author | Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.berkeley.edu> | 1999-09-22 15:41:30 -0400 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-09-23 06:44:42 +0000 |
| commit | 17f4a12df9ef6ee2f0a77e96071b3f12999159f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 8a8b13d7eda2a4df6ff788a2e607177efcfd5a5c /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | de0d19685a431728abc301db6a7957ad399d5e5f (diff) | |
| download | perl-17f4a12df9ef6ee2f0a77e96071b3f12999159f0.tar.gz | |
change "#" to a comment starter in pack templates; "/" now
used for specifying counted types
Message-ID: <19990922194130.A864@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: [PATCH 5.005_61] Enable comments in pack()/unpack() templates
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4222
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlfunc.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 230dcd5c5e..237a38ddf8 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -2809,9 +2809,9 @@ C<"P"> is C<undef>. =item * -The C<"#"> character allows packing and unpacking of strings where the +The C<"/"> character allows packing and unpacking of strings where the packed structure contains a byte count followed by the string itself. -You write I<length-item>C<#>I<string-item>. +You write I<length-item>C</>I<string-item>. The I<length-item> can be any C<pack> template letter, and describes how the length value is packed. @@ -2823,9 +2823,9 @@ The I<string-item> must, at present, be C<"A*">, C<"a*"> or C<"Z*">. For C<unpack> the length of the string is obtained from the I<length-item>, but if you put in the '*' it will be ignored. - unpack 'C#a', "\04Gurusamy"; gives 'Guru' - unpack 'a3#A* A*', '007 Bond J '; gives (' Bond','J') - pack 'n#a* w#a*','hello,','world'; gives "\000\006hello,\005world" + unpack 'C/a', "\04Gurusamy"; gives 'Guru' + unpack 'a3/A* A*', '007 Bond J '; gives (' Bond','J') + pack 'n/a* w/a*','hello,','world'; gives "\000\006hello,\005world" The I<length-item> is not returned explicitly from C<unpack>. @@ -2931,6 +2931,10 @@ could know where the bytes are going to or coming from. Therefore C<pack> (and C<unpack>) handle their output and input as flat sequences of bytes. +=item * + +A comment in a TEMPLATE starts with C<#> and goes to the end of line. + =back Examples: |