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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-06-18 13:11:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-06-18 13:11:49 +0000 |
| commit | a6ec74c1448e028e8d796742c81e78fb067bf603 (patch) | |
| tree | 316c1c9c0b1582643884c4cb62fa28d578b88412 /pod/perlhack.pod | |
| parent | 72802890534be7b33c8ac870fc565ebbe0a9f388 (diff) | |
| download | perl-a6ec74c1448e028e8d796742c81e78fb067bf603.tar.gz | |
Split off the pack/unpack code, from Nicholas Clark.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@10685
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diff --git a/pod/perlhack.pod b/pod/perlhack.pod index 6b67e5706b..64c69ad96e 100644 --- a/pod/perlhack.pod +++ b/pod/perlhack.pod @@ -1387,6 +1387,9 @@ the C<pack> happens at runtime, so it's going to be in one of the F<pp> files. Sure enough, C<pp_pack> is in F<pp.c>. Since we're going to be altering this file, let's copy it to F<pp.c~>. +[Well, it was in F<pp.c> when this tutorial was written. It has now been +split off with C<pp_unpack> to its own file, F<pp_pack.c>] + Now let's look over C<pp_pack>: we take a pattern into C<pat>, and then loop over the pattern, taking each format character in turn into C<datum_type>. Then for each possible format character, we swallow up |