perlquestion pat_mc Esteemed Monks,<br> <br> I am having some trouble trying to print the actual contents of a specific memory address. Essentially, I am trying to emulate C-type pointer dereferencing with basic Perl commands (rather than any specially designed modules). While I can easily obtain the memory address of a given variable, <code> perl -e '$a=5;printf "%p\n", $a' </code> I do not know how to print the contents of a given memory address (e.g., '0xe98af0'). I am sure there is an easy way to do it in Perl but I haven't been able to find it.<br> <br> Any help with this would be much appreciated.<br> <br> Kind regards -<br> <br> Pat