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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: unpack and endianness
Message-ID: <1990Oct8.152801.23049@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 8 Oct 90 15:28:01 GMT
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   X-Name: Cameron Simpson,foo

   Um, why can't I write
	   sub swab {
	       $_[0] =~ s/(.)(.)/$2$1/g;
	   }

Basically, because it doesn't work.  This swaps every pair of bytes,
but doesn't swap the byte pairs, etc.  The goal is to turn ABCD into
DCBA.

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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The great unsolved problem of feminsm is to decide whether we need to
make men more like women, or women more like men.