Re: Text to hex

[email protected] ("John W. Krahn")
Newsgroups perl.beginners
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mark Wagner wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:02 PM, John W. Krahn <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Mark Wagner wrote:
>>> Given a string of text, how do I convert it to a string of hexadecimal
>>> values?  For example, given the string "Hello", I want the string "48
>>> 65 6C 6C 6F".
>> $ perl -le'my $string = "Hello"; print unpack "H*", $string'
>> 48656c6c6f
> 
> Thanks.  Is there a good explanation of "unpack" somewhere?

perldoc perlpacktut


John
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