What does your current code look like and how does it fail?

Even more so when your avowed intent is learning than with homework it is important to show what you have tried and to show that you have made an effort. You learn almost nothing if we give you an answer (even if we could understand what you are trying to do). But you will learn a great deal, even if you fail to achieve what you set out to do, when you have a good go at solving the problem for yourself first.

You may find perlretut, substr and (maybe) unpack helpful.

True laziness is hard work

In reply to Re: Help creating a subroutine that parses a text file and adds it back to the subroutine to be printed out by GrandFather
in thread Help creating a subroutine that parses a text file and adds it back to the subroutine to be printed out by csmith992

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