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Do you know if there is in Perl the function "getBytes" in Java ?
I would like to convert a "string" to bytes in perl.
the idea could be :
$mystring="Hello EveryBody. How are you ?";
$mybytes = getBytes($mystring);
$mybytes="0x3C3F786D6C2076657273696F6E3D22312E"; #something like
Do you mean something like this:
perl -le '$s="Smile \x{263A}"; print join("-",unpack("U*",$s))'
Unpack("U*"...) understands Unicode, and returns one number for
each character (not byte) (i.e. one large number for the smiling
face character).
Or do you want one number for each utf8-encoded byte (I.e. three
hexpairs for the smiling face character).
perl -le '$s="Smile \x{263A}"; print unpack("H*",$s)'
Perl Version : 5.6.1
Apparently, I do not have the "Encode.pm" in my libraries.
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