Re: pack/unpack perl like functions ?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Xavier Maillard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have already asked this question but not here.
>
> I am looking for pack/unpack perl-like functions in elisp.
>
> unpack takes a string and expands it out as a list of values
> (pack does the opposite).
>
> Are you aware of something like this ?

(append "foo" nil) => (102 111 111)

(equal '(102 111 111) '(?f ?o ?o)) => t

(apply 'string '(?f ?o ?o)) => "foo"

--
Kevin