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borisz has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks,
I wonder, why I can not repeat a binary zero. Can somebody explain this? 
use Data::Dumper;

$_ = "\x00" x 26;
print Dumper($_);
$_ = "\x30" x 26;
print Dumper($_);

__OUTPUT__
$VAR1 = "";
$VAR1 = "00000000000000000000000000";

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