Hi Roboticus,

It's good to know that there are other fixed width hackers out there :-)

I did use pack for a while and I did find it easier and faster to create a solution using it. But I had a problem explaining how to match up the fields with the pack format to the supporting teams. They couldn't seem to get their heads around it. So, for me, I got called less if I developed the solution using substr coz (I suppose) it was easier for the support bods to conceptualise the approach.

Thanks though, it's nice to know I'm <drum roll please> part of the <ahem> pack. Thank you very much, I'm here til Thursday - try the fish.

Cheers, Jake

In reply to Re^2: Google has failed me! Using pack and substr for fixed width file output by spudulike
in thread Google has failed me! Using pack and substr for fixed width file output by spudulike

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