How do I post a question effectively?. Link to the thing you're asking for help with.

First I hate hazard games involving money, but this is another concern..

That said more effort you put asking questions here at the monastery, better chances you have to get back good answers.

If you had provided some more information perhaps tybalt89 would produced a regex for this, LanX a debug session ( PS or futile pics of Tuskens..), haukex some benchmarks, Corion a plethora of automations, Marshall a complete working program and me a oneliner to provide a zillion of dollars to the 42th casual user..

L*

Who Dares Wins!

While my first instinct was that "Win32::SerialPort is of no use for covert military actions", a lot of military equipment does use RS232. Like most GPS modules. And there are some quite big military things using/have used Windows as well.

The mere possibility that another failed Windows 10 update could accidentally start a war is somewhat frightening. Or the possibility that the backup to the primary navigation system is Bing Maps...

perl -e 'use Crypt::Digest::SHA256 qw[sha256_hex]; print substr(sha256_hex("the Answer To Life, The Universe And Everything"), 6, 2), "\n";'

So, the Special Air Service fought with "Slot Machines" in Northern Ireland and Falklands?

.. Who dares wins! ;-)

Cheers Rolf
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