Paul Kraus wrote:
> I am creating a simple database that needs to contain 3 fields.
> Date, order number, tracking number.
>
> I figured I would use a dbmhash and use pack to get the data in.
> So my hash would be %hash{tracking_number}=$packeddata.
>
> The date and order number are both strings.
> So using the information I received from perldoc -f pack.
> I determined that I need to use the format 'A'.
> $stuffed = pack("A A", $date, $order);
>
> All this does is steal the first character of each string.
>
> So reading more I find that I need a quantifier so I tried *
> $stuffed = pack("A* A*", $date, $order);
> This stole the 1st char of $date and the second char of $order.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Paul
Why do you say that? I ran under w2k AS 5.6.0 build 623 and placed
all in $stuffed. I printed it out and $stuffed had te data from both items
as one long stream.
Wags ;)
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