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From: dcd@tc.fluke.COM (David Dyck)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: PL41 BUG: pack('c',0) ne sprintf("%c",0)
Keywords: perl pl41 bug pack sprintf
Message-ID: <1990Dec20.153937.4134@tc.fluke.COM>
Date: 20 Dec 90 15:39:37 GMT
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
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perl -e 'print (pack('c',0) ne sprintf("%c",0))'

the code that executes sprintf in perl was changed in PL41,
and sprintf no longer will corectly null bytes.

            David Dyck			dcd@tc.fluke.COM
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