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Perl scalars cannot be stored or communicated; they are confined to a Perl interpreter instance. The values they contain must be serialised, which is to say converted to a stream of bytes, in order to do so. This is <tt>[doc://pack]</tt>'s primary purpose. <tt>[doc://unpack]</tt> is used to do the inverse, namely deserialising, which is to say converting sequences of bytes into scalars.
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