On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
> Technically, Perl only has two kinds of data types -- lists and scalars.
Actually, I would break that down even further into three types, scalars,
arrays (of scalars) and hashes (of scalars).
-- Brett
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On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Ruth Albocher wrote:
> I wish to use variables of type:
> double/long (but not float!)
> binary numbers and casting strings to binary
> unsigned integers(doubled would be better!)
>
> can somone point me in the right direction?
Technically, Perl only has two kinds of data typ
Well, Perl doesn't have these data types
explicitly (at least not yet) but what
you should look at are the two functions
Pack and Unpack.
Pack and Unpack take scalar variables and
convert them according to the format you
specify.
The man pages for them are quite in depth.
Hope that helps.
Take
Hello,
i wrote some beginners tutorial on http://japh.nu which deal with most of
the questions you're asking here
maybe you should take a look, see if that answers some of your questions.
regards,
Jos Boumans
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