Text::...y::Byte(3pm)

✨ Text::Bidi::Array::Byte — the manual page, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, gather round 💖 this is the User Contributed Perl Documentation page for Text::Bidi::Array::Byte(3pm), and honestly? it's short, it's sweet, and it does exactly one job. let's get into it.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Text::Bidi::Array::Byte — Dual-life byte arrays 🦋

like, it's an array, but make it bytes. no cap.

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

version 2.18 🎀

(yes, that's the vibe. write it down.)

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🫶 SYNOPSIS 🫶

okay so here's the whole entire move:

use Text::Bidi::Array::Byte;
my $a = new Text::Bidi::Array::Byte "abc";
say $a->[1]; # says 98
say $$a; # says abc
say "$a"; # also says abc

the way that $a->[1] says 98?? that's literally the octet value of b, iconic. and then $$a and "$a" both give you abc right back. it's giving dual life 💅. NOT me being obsessed with a byte array. 🙈

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the tea 🍓: this is a derived class of Text::Bidi::Array, and it's specifically designed to hold "byte" arrays.

if you wanna know the deets on how to actually use this class, go read Text::Bidi::Array — that's where all the usage lore lives, iykyk. 📚

the one big thing to internalize: each element of the array representation corresponds to an octet in the string representation, at the same location. like, position-for-position, octet-for-element. nothing shifts, nothing plays games, it just lines up. periodt. 👑

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Moshe Kamensky <kamensky@cpan.org> — ty for your service, legend 🫡💖

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🌈 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🌈

This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Moshe Kamensky.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

translation: it's free, you can share it and remix it, just keep it on the same terms as Perl 5 itself. slay. ✨

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

lowkey the only friend this page has is Text::Bidi::Array, so go read that one next. it's the parent, it's the main character, it knows everything. 🌟

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aaaand that's the whole page, bestie 💀 short king energy fr fr. this came from perl v5.42.3 and it's dated 2026-08-19, so go forth and byte-array responsibly 🎀💖 bye mwah 💋