Greetings all,
Just an FYI you can use an 'x' in your unpack template to remove the spaces ('x'='A null byte.'), that is unless you want the spaces.
so

my @FIELDS = unpack('a9a4a10a8', $record);
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becomes

my @FIELDS = unpack('x9a4x10a8', $record);
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Given your example code above the output would be:

$record = [         none          lt2dpmnt]
field=[none]
field=[lt2dpmnt]
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-injunjoel