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in reply to decimal to binary

Maybe you don't understand why I don't use pack/unpack... Only for illustrate the well known TIMTOWTDI :)
sub to_bin { my $num = shift; my $size = 0; my @result; while( $num >> $size ) { $size ++;} for (0..$size-1) { unshift @result , ( ($num & ( 2 ** $_ ) ) ? "1" : "0" ); } return join '' , @result ; }