Re: Hex string output

I think your being bitten by Unicode conversion. You could try using :raw on the open

open FILE, '>output.dat:raw' or die $!;
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or using binmode on FILE before writing to it.

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Re: Re: Hex string output by zengargoyle (Deacon) on Oct 08, 2003 at 04:41 UTC
i'm never sure about binmode, never had to use it. same with utf8, but that's where your problem lies. go check out `perldoc perldelta` and see what it says about utf8 `$ perl -e '$f="\xff\x01\x67";print $f' \| od -t x1 0000000 ff 01 67 0000003 $ perl -e '$f="\xff\x01\x67";use Encode; $f=encode("utf8", decode("iso +-8859-1",$f));print $f' \| od -t x1 0000000 c3 bf 01 67 0000004` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Hex string output by Anonymous Monk on Oct 08, 2003 at 19:42 UTC
binmode FILE solved my problem... thanks for the help, everyone. It was indeed that nasty business with the utf8/RedHat 9/Perl 5.8.0	[reply]