[svlug] OT: Perl pack?

[Robert L. Harris]

I'm reading through the perl books I have (programming and cookbook).  I 
think pack will be the way I want to go, but I'm not sure.

Basically, I have a variable length string of Characters (a-x,A-Z,0-9 and 
a few more) I'd like to "compact" and preferably make non-human-readable.

I also need to be able to unpack this.

Basically something like:

$Packed=function($Clear);
$Clear=function($Packed);

Help?

Robert

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      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.

FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'


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