Besides looking at it like pairs of records of 122 bytes, you could look at it as records of 244 bytes.

local $/ = \(2*122); binmode($fixedfile); while (<$fixedfile>) { my @fields = unpack( "A2 A10 A33 A15 A19 A10 A3 A18 A6 A4 x2" . "A2 A98 A11 A9 x2", $_ ); ... my $total = $fields[3]; my $timestamp = $fields[4]; ... }

Replace "A" for "x" if you want to ignore a field.

As for how to store the fields, you could use a hash or scalars.

my %fields; @fields{qw( ... total timestamp ... )} = unpack(...);
my ( ... $total, $timestamp, ... ) = unpack(...);

Update: Added mention of "x".
Update: Added alternative storage strategies.


In reply to Re: Working with fixed length files by ikegami
in thread Working with fixed length files by vendion

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