in reply to Is there a "pack() and unpack() for dummies"?

If you have a copy of The Perl Cookbook there's an example of extracting records from a Linux wtmp file using unpack().

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Re^2: Is there a "pack() and unpack() for dummies"?
by TStanley (Canon) on Nov 30, 2004 at 17:13 UTC
    davorg's Data Munging with Perl also has some examples of using pack and unpack to store and retrieve data

    TStanley
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      Excellent suggestions. It's good to see that I'm not alone in my shame. Hopefully others will be able to find this thread and have an easier time searching than I did. Thanks.