I've never dealt with complicated matching before, so I definitely need a little assistance on this one!
I'm taking a frame in and need to break it down into a packet. This isn't a problem, except I've no idea how to split my frame into the necessary pieces to work with. The frame begins & ends the same way, has a 16-character byte count section, and then the mystery 'payload'. It would look something like this
flag      byte count       mystery      flag
01111110 0000000000000100 010111001001 01111110

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The only parts I'm *sure* of every time I get a frame is the flag sections on either end, and the length of the byte count is always 16.
I want to be able to split this frame when I get it into 4 parts, flag1, bytecount, mystery, flag2. What kind of pattern would I be matching for? Splitting against whitespace isn't an option, the frame only comes in one long piece. Having a variable like the mystery section in a string is something I've never had to work with before, hence my need for guidance from those more experienced than I

I do have the Programming Perl book, if someone can direct me to an example in there that might assist me.

In reply to RegEx Confusion! by TrinityInfinity

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