Hi Monks, I have a file that is mixed with ascii text and binary. The binary part of the file is delimited by "Binary:\n". Then there is binary data that must be read 64 bits at a time. The binary data is too large to be split into a separate file or copy, so I would like to do this in one swoop. The following code does not work, it appears as if I cannot switch to binmode once I encounter the binary section of the file? Again, pretend that the binary portion is large so this needs to be done efficiently. Thanks in advance!

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $raw_file="spectrebin.raw";
open (FILE,$raw_file);

foreach my $line (<FILE>) {
   if ($line=~/^Binary:/) {
      #Switch to binary mode
 
      #NOTE: If you comment this line in, 
      #   it works but starts reading the file from the 
      #   start, which I do not want.  I want it to 
      #   read only the binary portion
      #open (FILE,$raw_file);  

      binmode(FILE) or die "ERROR> Could not read binary file";
      my $buffer;
      while ((read (FILE, $buffer, 64))!=0) {
         my $binary = unpack("B64",$buffer);
         printf "Binary: $binary\n";
      }
      #Do not read the binary part as ascii
      last;
   } else {
      #the ascii part
      printf "ASCII: $line";
   }
}
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