Am on a Win2K box, and don't understand the following output & snippet. Can someone plse explain and tell me how to get integers from my string, I am expecting a single integer result to be 114,200 (w/o the comma of course).
string to unpack >0114200<
fmt=A7 >> pr=0114200
fmt=I7 >> pr=875639088
fmt=i7 >> pr=875639088
fmt=L7 >> pr=875639088
fmt=l7 >> pr=875639088

use strict;
use warnings;
my $data='0114200';
print "string to unpack >$data<\n";
my $fmt = 'A7';
my $pr = unpack($fmt,$data);
print "fmt=$fmt >> pr=$pr\n";
$fmt = 'I7';
$pr = unpack($fmt,$data);
print "fmt=$fmt >> pr=$pr\n";
$fmt = 'i7';
$pr = unpack($fmt,$data);
print "fmt=$fmt >> pr=$pr\n";
$fmt = 'L7';
$pr = unpack($fmt,$data);
print "fmt=$fmt >> pr=$pr\n";
$fmt = 'l7';
$pr = unpack($fmt,$data);
print "fmt=$fmt >> pr=$pr\n";

Thanks.
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Dick Penny

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