From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 20:10:34 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Clarify the definition of the 'w' pack format, as suggested by X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=24436e9a6cbac7c6d5f2e80821bf1e4ed98a4663;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Clarify the definition of the 'w' pack format, as suggested by Alexey Toptygin. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@24368 --- diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index dcb1371..79ebdf9 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -3358,10 +3358,10 @@ of values, as follows: U A Unicode character number. Encodes to UTF-8 internally (or UTF-EBCDIC in EBCDIC platforms). - w A BER compressed integer. Its bytes represent an unsigned - integer in base 128, most significant digit first, with as - few digits as possible. Bit eight (the high bit) is set - on each byte except the last. + w A BER compressed integer (not an ASN.1 BER, see perlpacktut for + details). Its bytes represent an unsigned integer in base 128, + most significant digit first, with as few digits as possible. Bit + eight (the high bit) is set on each byte except the last. x A null byte. X Back up a byte.