Sorting a hash to user needs

2009-07-08 Thread Alexander Müller
Hi, I need an order for hash by user preferences. Because the criterion to order the hash entries a not numerical and not should sorted alphabetical, I tried following   3 %hashToSort = (   4 "a" => "one",   5 "b" => "two",   6 "c" => "three",   7 ); @keys = sort { qw(a, b, c) } (

pack function

2006-08-24 Thread Alexander Müller
Hello, I am currently trying to understand the TripleDES code and found the following line my @kvs = PPDES::des_set_key( pack( "H*", substr($passphrase, 16*$_, 16 ))); which apparently processes a 16 characters large block with the pack() function. Now I would like to know what it exactly doe