#! perl -slw use strict; use Data::Dump qw[ pp ]; my %tmpls = ( '1,2,3,4' => { I => { 16 => 'v*', 32 => 'V*' }, F => { 32 => 'f<*' }, D => { 64 => 'd<*' }, }, '4,3,2,1' => { I => { 16 => 'n*', 32 => 'N*' }, F => { 32 => 'f>*' }, D => { 64 => 'd>*' }, }, ); open FCS, '<:raw', 'c:\downloaded\FCSExtract-TestData\FloatData4031.fcs' or die $!; sysread( FCS, my $header, 58 ) or die $!; my( $id, $sText, $eText, $sData, $eData, $sAnalysis, $eAnalysis ) = unpack 'A6 x4 (A8)6', $header; sysseek FCS, $sText, 0 or die $!; sysread( FCS, my $text, $eText - $sText ) or die $!; my $delim = substr $text, 0, 1, ''; my %text = split $delim, $text; pp \%text; sysseek FCS, $sData, 0 or die $!; sysread( FCS, my $data, $eData - $sData ) or die $!; my $tmpl = $tmpls{ $text{ '$BYTEORD' } } { $text{ '$DATATYPE' } } { $text{ '$P1B' } }; die 'Can\'t handle format' unless $tmpl; my @data = unpack $tmpl, $data; pp \@data;