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| 44 | Indirection tags can be nested - each additional level of nesting would |
44 | Indirection tags can be nested - each additional level of nesting would |
| 45 | indicate an additional indirection. |
45 | indicate an additional indirection. |
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| 47 | =head1 EXAMPLES |
47 | =head1 EXAMPLES |
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| 49 | <TBD> |
49 | The following Perl data structure is an array containing a reference to an |
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54 | Since Perl cannot have "naked" arrays or maps inside another data |
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55 | structure, but only a reference to it, the natural encoding of this |
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56 | data structure uses a normal array for the array-reference (i.e. it |
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57 | omits the reference). The string reference is uncommon but valid, and |
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58 | not the natural way to store a string inside another data structure. An |
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59 | encoder might therefore chose to encode this string reference using the |
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62 | 256([[], 22098("string")]) |
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64 | d9 0100 # tag(256) |
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65 | 82 # array(2) |
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66 | 80 # array(0) |
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67 | d9 5652 # tag(22098) |
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68 | 66 # text(6) |
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69 | 737472696e67 # "string" |
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