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pack
Combined from primary sources listed below.

In role Blob§

See primary documentation in context for sub pack

This subroutine is considered experimental, in order to use it you will need to do:

use experimental :pack;
multi pack(Str $template, *@items)
multi pack(@template, *@items)

Packs the given items according to the template and returns a buffer containing the packed bytes.

The template string consists of zero or more units that begin with an ASCII letter, and are optionally followed by a quantifier. For details, see unpack.