Perl unpack in list context
- by drewk
A common 'Perlism' is generating a list as something to loop over in this form:
for($str=~/./g) { print "the next character from \"$str\"=$_\n"; }
In this case the global match regex returns a list that is one character in turn from the string $str, and assigns that value to $_
Instead of a regex, split can be used in the same way or 'a'..'z',…
