on Fri, 07 Jun 2002 23:28:44 GMT, Eric Abell wrote:
> My question is this: what is the difference between "c" and "C"? I
> know what perldoc says - one is a signed char and the other is an
> unsigned char. So if I have the value 230, shouldn't that be illegal
> for a signed 8-bit number, since the valid range is -127 to 128. I
> tried every value between 0 and 255 and there is no difference
> between "c" and "C".
You will see the difference in unpack:
my $p = pack("C", 230);
print unpack("C", $p), "\n"; # prints 230
print unpack("c", $p), "\n"; # prints -26
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