Re: Reading Binary Data via socket ( Converting program from java to perl )

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You want pack and unpack. Pack to create the binary data, which you then print to the socket, then you use read to get data back and unpack to turn it in to perl usable scalars.

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Re^2: Reading Binary Data via socket ( Converting program from java to perl ) by petethered (Pilgrim) on Oct 19, 2004 at 01:40 UTC
Any chance of you expanding on your answer and giving me an example that will do what I want? ;) Yeah, I know, asking you to do the work for me.	[reply]

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