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I can't find a basic description of how string data is stored in Perl! Its like all the documentation is assuming I already know this for some reason. I know about encode(), decode(), and I know I can read raw bytes into a Perl "string" and output them again without Perl screwing with them. I know about open modes. I also gather Perl must use some interal format to store character strings and can differentiate between character and binary data. Please where is this documented??? Equivalent question is; given this perl: $x = decode($y); Decode to WHAT and from WHAT?? As far as I can figure there must be a flag on the string data structure that says this is binary XOR character data (of some internal format which BTW is a superset of Unicode - http://perldoc.perl.org/Encode.html#DESCRIPTION ). But I'd like it if that were stated in the docs or confirmed/discredited here.
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