Hi Lars,
On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 10:54:34 +0300
Lars Noodén <lars.noo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/03/2016 02:42 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Hi Lars and all,
> >
> > On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 11:38:44 +0000
> > Duncan Ferguson <duncan.fergu...@opsview.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Lars,
> >>
> >> I believe 'unpack' is the right way to go, you just need to get the
> >> template right ('N' in your example)
> >>
> >
> > in addition to unpack there are also:
> >
> > 1. http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/vec.html - perldoc -f vec.
> >
> > 2. http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/substr.html - perldoc -f substr -
> > should work fine on byte-based data.
> >
> > 3. https://metacpan.org/release/Data-ParseBinary - inspired by
> > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/construct and reportedly not too performant.
> [snip]
>
> Thanks Duncan, Shlomi, and everyone.
>
> Is substr() always byte-safe? (Using perl 5.20.2 for example)
>
What do you mean by something being "byte-safe" exactly? I'm not sure I
understand.
Note that substr may return a sequence of Unicode characters if it's a Unicode
string. For more information, see:
* http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
* http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunitut.html
Regards,
Shlomi
> Regards,
> Lars
>
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