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You want to look into vec.

$type = vec($entry,0,8) & 191;

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Re^4: Binary Reading Questions
by Eyeth (Sexton) on Jun 30, 2005 at 15:57 UTC
    Talk about nailing it on the head! Thanks, idsfa! The vec function is just tailor-made for my Perl script.
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