in reply to storing hex data in a file

thanks for your replies, but that's not quite what i wanted...

your code stores "Ox55" in the file, ie. the hex value 30 78 35 35.

what i need is to store the hex value (eg. 55, which would be 'U' in char.)

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Re^2: storing hex data in a file
by modred (Pilgrim) on Aug 11, 2004 at 11:57 UTC
    You probably want to take a look at pack then. 
    my $x = pack("C", 0x55);
print $x, "\n";

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    works for you specific case but I don't have a good grasp of your general case to know if it will work for that.
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Re^2: storing hex data in a file
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 11, 2004 at 14:46 UTC
    Don't forget to use binmode() on your file handle if you're going to print out arbitrary values.
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