Yup, but I like the memorable-self-documenting-english-worded-ness of the api ...

It's a pretty incomplete API. You didn't even support the integer formats used by most communication protocols.

As for memorable and self-documenting, all that's needed here is 

sub parse_myformat_rec {
   ...
}

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That would be more meaningful and surely at least 10 times faster. If so, that's the difference between 6 seconds and 60 seconds when processing large files as is usually the case with such code.

I can't guess how it gets twisted across platforms so I leave it as is

So why did you go out of your way to write code that will read your integers on those platforms?

perlpacktut recommends Convert::Binary::C :) I find "my api" (similar to what I saw in javascript/java/c#sharp ...) easier

perlpacktut recommends Convert::Binary::C for C structs. Your API isn't easier at handling those; it's completely useless at handling alignment.

In reply to Re^4: Iteratively unpack structure from binary file ( ReadBytes, ReadFloat, ReadInt32 ) by ikegami
in thread Iteratively unpack structure from binary file by cMonkE

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