Hello, I'm new to perlmonks and this is my first post! I've only coded in matlab, so I will reference matlab functions to see if you guys can help me find the equivalent in perl.
I"m trying to read binary data from a file. The structure of the file contains data that has information in 158 byte increments, meaning every new 158 bytes is independent from the rest. so it goes like this:
$file = $ARGV_[0]
open(fileFID,$file);
for (my $ii = 1; $ii<=10;$ii++){
read(fileFID,my $data,158);
#now everytime I loop I want to put the new information of
#the file into a new row. In matlab you would simply say:
# $new_data(ii,:)=$data; and the info from read would go
#into a new row. I want to keep the $new_data variable for
#later use because I will be calling it more than once and
#I dont' want to read the information from the file
#everytime. Please help!
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In reply to reading binary data from a file by amigero

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