From @sciurius

Created by @sciurius

Unpack character . (returns the number of bytes or characters (depending
on the selected encoding mode) read so far) is not documented in
perlfunc.pod.

The documentation of pack / unpack is too messy to provide an easy
patch.

Flags:
    category=docs
    severity=medium

From @jkeenan

On Mon May 09 05​:00​:11 2011, jv wrote​:

This is a bug report for perl from jvromans@​squirrel.nl,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.14.0.

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[Please describe your issue here]

Unpack character . (returns the number of bytes or characters (depending
on the selected encoding mode) read so far) is not documented in
perlfunc.pod.

The documentation of pack / unpack is too messy to provide an easy
patch.

At lines 4042-43 of pod/perlfunc.pod (blead), I see​:

#####
. Null-fill or truncate to absolute position specified by the value.
#####

Is that different from what you were looking for?

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

From @sciurius

[Quoting James E Keenan via RT, on December 5 2011, 19​:02, in "[perl #90166] Unp> > Unpack character . (returns the number of bytes or characters (depending

on the selected encoding mode) read so far) is not documented in
perlfunc.pod.

The documentation of pack / unpack is too messy to provide an easy
patch.

At lines 4042-43 of pod/perlfunc.pod (blead), I see​:

#####
. Null-fill or truncate to absolute position specified by the value.
#####

Is that different from what you were looking for?

Yes. This is the pack functionality. It is the unpack functionality
(which is different) that is missing.

-- Johan