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Are there a fixed number of them? Are the lines of fixed length? The thing about "binary" data is that anything goes: any value is valid. So, the more we know about your header, the better equipped we are to help...

thor

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Re: Re: How to eliminate text portion of a binary file?
by Anonymous Monk on May 14, 2004 at 20:48 UTC
    The header will always end with the line:

    #### end_ascii_header

    Thanks,

    -fiddler42

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      Try this, then: 
      use strict;
use warnings;

open(my $fh, "/path/to/file") or die $!;
while(<$fh>) {
   last if $_ eq "#### end_ascii_header\n";
}
#$fh is now positioned at the beginning of the binary data; do what yo
+u will

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      thor

      Update:Fixed a typo in the code (missing 'if')
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