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<I want to extract the first 4 bits of an ip packet ($packet). Does the following line of code do this for me? Or does it give me the first four bytes of the packet or even something else? $bytes = unpack("b4", $packet); > Couple of questions: You want to extract the 4 bits into an array or into an string? Is this a raw packet dump in hex? There are many ways but here is one: $packet = "234BBFF56"; @array = split(//, unpack('B4', $packet)); # @bits now has members 0,0,1,1 --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]