"According to management..." ... famous last words. ;-)

Courtney, we can't help you with the header because you haven't given a format. Given that, I'll just suggest that you need to figure out whether the bytes are in Little-Endian order or Big-Endian order, and how to handle the sign bit(s).

Do you have a sample output file that corresponds to an input buinary file? You need to know that you can verify your output.

I think we've given you a good start. From this point, it's a matter of you learning the Perl functions and syntax, and there are lots of pointers to get you there, including the Super Search functionality on this website.

Don Wilde
"There's more than one level to any answer."

In reply to Re^2: Converting Files by samizdat
in thread Converting Files by Courtney1306

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