I am trying to converting a C program to Perl. One of the main stopping points with me is the fact that I have a C structure that is something like this:
struct data{
char id2;
int secs;
int version;
char misc10;
char data9999;
};
How do you convert this to Perl?  I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the pack() command, but I'm not exactly sure how.  The problems I am having are:

a. let's say secs=65.  I need it to output 0x0041 or \#0065 as opposed to print out "65" ascii.  In other words I need it to be binary and fill up 2 bytes.

b. how do you load and establish a 10,000 byte array, or create a 10,000 byte array filled with binary 0's as opposed to ascii 0's to write input and output. 
 I know about the chr(), ord() commands, but is there an easy way to just establish or read this type of structure?  

thanks in advance.
-Greg

In reply to Converting a C structure to Perl by Anonymous Monk

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