Hi,

I'm using unpack(..) to decode a mixed binary/ascii record. It's mostly working well, but a couple of the values are two-byte, signed short integer. How do I unpack these?

Here's my current code: 
my $packet_template = "B16 s2 A4 A8 A2 A A A3 C2";

# read in next record from STDIN and store in $buffer

($Flags,$x,$y,$Mode3,$Callsign,
    $Route,$Spare1,$Spare2,$Flight_Level,
    $Terminator,$Checksum) =
  unpack ( $packet_template, $buffer );

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This all works except the $x and $y values which are big-endian. Any offers?

R.

In reply to how to unpack a big-endian signed short integer by robinbowes

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