I'm successfully retrieving values from a file (thanks for the help from yesterday), but I'm having a problem. One of the fields I'm retrieving is a binary field. I think I'm retrieving it okay, but when I try to convert it using unpack to a string or number, I end up with 0's. I should be getting a number greater than zero.

I've tested this by grabbing other binary fields from the same file, and when I unpack them (using 'N' or 'I') I end up with zeros, as well.

Any ideas?

Here's some of my code:

sysread(INPUT,$outp\0\,12,1);
print "length: ".$outp\0\."\n";
print "length: ".unpack("I", $outp\0\)."\n";

where 1 through 12 are binary fields.

Thanks for your time.

In reply to Binary data by JunkGuy

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