#!ruby

#
# Cut header of SPL in spool folder to raw EMF
#

def spl2emf(fnm)
    File.open(fnm + ".emf", "wb") {|fo|
        File.open(fnm, "rb") {|fi|
            str = fi.read
            pos = str.index(" EMF")
            if pos == nil
                print "No EMF marker found; probably wrong file\n"
                next
            end
            fo.write(str[(pos-40)..-1])
        }
    }
end

if __FILE__ == $0
    ARGV.each {|fnm|
        print fnm, "\n"
        spl2emf(fnm)
    }
end

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This should be close (UNTESTED): 

#!/usr/bin/perl

#
# Cut header of SPL in spool folder to raw EMF
#

sub spl2emf {
    my $fnm = shift;
    if ( open my $FO, '>:raw', "$fnm.emf" ) {
        if ( open my $FI, '<:raw', $fnm ) {
            read $FI, my $str, -s $FI;
            my $pos = index $str, ' EMF';
            if ( $pos == -1 ) {
                print "No EMF marker found; probably wrong file\n";
                return;
                }
            print $FO substr $str, $pos - 40;
            }
        }
    }

foreach my $fnm ( @ARGV ) {
    print "$fnm\n";
    spl2emf( $fnm );
    }

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In reply to Re: help in ruby code to perl by jwkrahn
in thread help in ruby code to perl by eviltom

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