in reply to Dreaded Symbolic References

The way I would abstract variant record types is with a hash that you could reuse: 
my %unpack = ( 
preface => "A2 A2 A2 A4 A2 A2 A1486",
94 => "A8 A40",
...
)
@HeaderRecord   = unpack $unpack{preface}, $FullRecord;

@RecordNames[$RecordType] =  unpack $unpack{$RecordType}, $Record;

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-Mark

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Re: Re: Dreaded Symbolic References
by SkipHuffman (Monk) on Mar 08, 2004 at 16:44 UTC

    Ah, but I really want the names. Keeping track of exactly what field 35 for record type 22 is what I want to avoid. I think tracking that I am working on a NameAddress record and reading HomeZipCode is going to be a bit easier to maintain.

    Thanks,

    Skip

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