Re^6: pack() returns an unusable string

[syphilis]

Just another guess ...

Yes, that works fine on Windows as is:

C:\_32\pscrpt>perl test4.pl
>qq(\0\0\0\0\0'\xB0\@)<
000000000027b040

But not when I change $template to "D<" and $nv to 2.4:

C:\_32\pscrpt>perl test4.pl
>pack(qq(H*","9a999999999999990040000000000000))<
syntax error at -e line 1, at EOF
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

(I can dig into this later if you're getting tired of it.)

Cheers,
Rob

[tybalt89]

The Windows command line quoting rules may be so bad that the safest/easiest solution may be to write your generated code to a file and then execute the file.

That way the double quotes from Data::Dump will not be confused with command line delimiters by the command line processor.