Re: The 5.8.0 port anyone?

James Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue 01 Jul, Glyn Royds wrote:
> > 
> > Back in March Alex reported that he had a port of 5.8.0 but his site is
> > down :( Does anyone else know where this (or even 5.6) could be found?
> 
> I'd also love to get my hands on a later version of Perl for
> RISC OS, but I recall Alex Waugh saying that his port was not
> complete and was very much alpha test only.
> 
> > 5.005 doesn't get along too happily with the sprintf'ing (%b016)
> > that I need :-(
> 
> What is %b016 supposed to do? Perhaps it would be better to write a

It converts a number to binary, padded out to to 16 characters with 0's. As
something of a perl novice I was about to start writing a routine to do the
same when I discovered %(b/o/x)n (developing on a PC - sorry), wasn't
looking forward to it though.

Later, Glyn.