Hi Monks,

I have the following piece of code that acts as a listing server for data.

The data is Binary data, but for some reason its displaying in ASCII, is it possible to write the data in its raw format to a file, or display it on the screen?
Or is it possible to convert this data to HEX format? 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use IO::Socket;
my(
  $sock,
  $r_msg,
  $in_msg,
  $inhost,
  $MAXLEN,
  $PORTNO
);

$MAXLEN = 10240;
$PORTNO = 7780;

$sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
                              LocalPort => $PORTNO,
                              Proto => 'udp'
                            )
                            or die "socket: $@";

print "Awaiting UDP messages on port $PORTNO\n";

$r_msg = "Received OK.";

while ($sock->recv($in_msg, $MAXLEN)) {

    my($port, $ipaddr) = sockaddr_in($sock->peername);

    $inhost = gethostbyaddr($ipaddr, AF_INET);

    no utf8;


    print "Client $inhost said $in_msg\n";

   #  print sprintf("%04x",$in_msg)."\n";


    use bytes;
    print length($in_msg)."\n";
    $sock->send($r_msg);

}
die "recv: $!";

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the above produces:
Client 41-208-48-1.xxxxxx.x.x said àêc':_è@âäçä-ó
50
Any help will be great

Kenny<br<

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