[comp.lang.perl] PL41 BUG: pack

dcd@tc.fluke.COM (David Dyck) (12/20/90)

perl -e 'print (pack('c',0) ne sprintf("%c",0))'

the code that executes sprintf in perl was changed in PL41,
and sprintf no longer will corectly null bytes.

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