[Israel.pm] pack vs. different architectures

[Shlomi Fish]

On Tuesday 22 February 2005 13:13, Gaal Yahas wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:01:36PM +0200, Gaal Yahas wrote:
> > Use the slice, Luke:
> >
> > my $str = pack( "a8  f    f    f   N     N",
> >     @$hdr{ qw/   id  lat  lon  t   nlev  flag/ };
>
> Or, if you do this kind of thing a lot, this is a nice place to use
> order-preserving hashes.
>
>      our $header_template = Tie::IxHash->new(
>          id   => 'a8',
>          lat  => 'f',
>          lon  => 'f',
>          t    => 'f',
>          nlev => 'N',
>          flag => 'N',
>      );
>
>      sub struct_packer {
>          my($template, $data) = @_;
>
>          # could be made better, no doubt.
>          die "template and data mismatch" if $template->Length != $data;
>
>          pack join("", $t->Values), $data->{ $t->Keys };

You probably mean @{$data}{$t->Keys} here. And $template instead of $t.

And I don't see the advantage of having an order preserving hash instead of 
having an array, with each element containing both the $hdr key and its 
appropriate pack time.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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