Re: Data Conversion ?

On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 17:21 -0500, Nathan Gibbs wrote:
> How would I get the length of a string as returned by length () into
> 
> a 4 byte unsigned integer in  network byte order
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> But there's no sense crying over every mistake.
> You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
> And the Science gets done.
> And you make an income.
> For the people who are still alive.
> 

It's simple.

$unsigned_4byte_int = pack 'N', length($your_string);

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