Reference: unpack
Author: Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour & Nathan Patwardhan
Date: 1999-07-02T01:39:05Z

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| Chapter 5 Function Reference |

## unpack

    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 in 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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