>perl -wMstrict -le "my $struct = qq{\x0d\x00\x0b\x00Just Another Perl Hacker}; ;; my @len = unpack 'ss', $struct; print qq{@len}; ;; my @data = unpack qq{(x[s])2 A$len[0] A$len[1]}, $struct; print qq{'$data[0]' '$data[1]'}; " 13 11 'Just Another' 'Perl Hacker'