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The unpack keyword
unpack does the opposite of pack by taking a string and expanding it out into a list of values. (In scalar context, only the first value produced is returned.)
Syntax
unpack TEMPLATE, EXPRESSION
unpack TEMPLATE
Example
my($what, $where, $howmuch) = @_;
unpack("x$where a$howmuch", $what);
See also
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