Perl Programming/Keywords/pack

The pack keyword

pack takes a LIST of values and converts it into a string using the rules defined in the TEMPLATE. The string returned is the concatenation of the appropriately converted values.

Syntax

  pack TEMPLATE, LIST

Example

Following code

 pack("n/a* w/a", "hello,", "world")

outputs the line

"\000\006hello,\005world"

See also

• unpack