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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-02-25 14:35:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-02-25 14:35:19 +0000 |
| commit | a7bac0307a23adcde68a7bec5cbf98aae7782430 (patch) | |
| tree | 761b93aac29d673f264f26f1be1f2313d9dc3bcb /pod | |
| parent | 492652be590915fcb2621eeceaf000a1c070956a (diff) | |
| download | perl-a7bac0307a23adcde68a7bec5cbf98aae7782430.tar.gz | |
Mention the new pack tricks.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14866
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index f621c856cd..c34d43492a 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -449,6 +449,16 @@ pop(), push(), shift(), splice(), unshift(). =item * +C<pack() / unpack()> now can group template letters with C<()> and then +apply repetition/count modifiers on the groups. + +=item * + +C<pack() / unpack()> can now process the Perl internal numeric types: +IVs, UVs, NVs-- and also long doubles, if supported by the platform. + +=item * + C<pack('U0a*', ...)> can now be used to force a string to UTF8. =item * |