Dear Monks,

Here is my perl script ...

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

open( FH, ">junk.dat" ) or die "dang it!\n";

my $num = 1234;
syswrite ( FH, $num );
close FH;

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... Here's what is does ...
$ ./bi.pl

$ cat junk.dat
1234
... but want it to behave more like this C program ...

#include <stdio.h>
main() {
        FILE *fh;
        int num = 1234;

        if(( fh = fopen( "junkc.dat", "w" ) ) == NULL ) {
                printf ("Cannot open it\n");
                exit();
        }
        fwrite( &num, sizeof(int), 1, fh);
        fclose( fh );
}

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$ ./bi

$ cat junkc.dat
Ò

... why does my perl script write 1234 to junk.dat
and not the cool looking O thingy?

thanks

In reply to writing binary data in perl by rbc

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