Re^2: Perl binary file reading

If it's binary data, it might have a ^D, which indicates the end of a stream of data. That's on Linux .. and I think a ^Z is used for Windows.

Should be no problem with binmode.

Alexander

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Re^3: Perl binary file reading by talexb (Chancellor) on May 02, 2016 at 20:52 UTC
Right -- that was my point. If they're using readline, they're subject to the rules of reading text (break the chunks into lines, stop at the 'end of file'). If they're using read, then they'll just get chunks of the file up to the file size. Alex / talexb / Toronto Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.	[reply]