Name
unpack
Synopsis
unpack template, string
Takes a string (string)
representing a data structure and expands it into a list value,
returning the list value. (unpack does the reverse of pack.) In a scalar context, it can be
used to unpack a single value. The
template has much the same format as
the pack function—it specifies
the order and type of the values to be unpacked. See pack
for a more detailed description of
template.
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