Hello Dave,

I made successfully seek routine, and almost convert this code, but my problems now are in "sprintf", take a little look in my (newbie) perl code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use warnings;
use Fcntl qw(:seek);

my $key = ""; 
my $read = "";
my @list;

# getting value from /dev/mem
open(MEM, "< /dev/mem") or die "Error while opening /dev/mem";
seek(MEM, 0xFFFF2, SEEK_SET);
sysread(MEM, $read, 14);
close(MEM);

@list = split('', $read);

foreach (@list) {
    $key = sprintf("%s%2.2x", $key, $_);
    print $key, "\n";
}

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and: 
$ sudo perl seek.pl 
Argument "à" isn't numeric in sprintf at seek.pl line 20.
00
Argument "\0" isn't numeric in sprintf at seek.pl line 20.
0000
Argument "ð" isn't numeric in sprintf at seek.pl line 20.
000000
00000000
0000000009
Argument "/" isn't numeric in sprintf at seek.pl line 20.
000000000900
00000000090000
0000000009000002
Argument "/" isn't numeric in sprintf at seek.pl line 20.
000000000900000200
00000000090000020000
0000000009000002000004
Argument "\0" isn't numeric in sprintf at seek.pl line 20.
000000000900000200000400
Argument "ü" isn't numeric in sprintf at seek.pl line 20.
00000000090000020000040000
Argument "Ä" isn't numeric in sprintf at seek.pl line 20.
0000000009000002000004000000

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Should I use pack function or something like ?

thank's

In reply to Re^2: Translating ANSI C to Perl by otaviof
in thread Translating ANSI C to Perl by otaviof

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