Re: Function to produce formatted ord values of a string

[rovf]

in reply to Function to produce formatted ord values of a string

I would do it like new_dump_buf_2, but would replace unpack by

split(//,$buf)

simply because I find it more readable. But it's a matter of taste. People used to unpack might find your code better readable...

[brx]

Tell me if I'm wrong: I think it's dangerous to use split (character vs byte, unicode). With unpack it's less ambiguous.

[rovf]

Well, given the sprintf format specification you are using, Unicode is not forseen anyway in your code, but in general: I don't see, why split should be unsafe (it operates on characters, which includes unicode characters), while unpack operates on bytes. Hence, maybe it is unpack which is dangerous, but since I don't have experience with unpack, I leave this question to more knowledgable monks...