in reply to Need Help: PERL and Binary Data

First off, it's perl or Perl. Never PERL.

For reading binary files first start off reading open, read and binmode. As for the '8 * 2**10' read Exponentiation. perldoc.com is an excellent resource.

But really you should pick up Learning Perl, this will get your Perl experience off to good start. If you run into trouble, feel free to post here.

grep
XP matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my XP, do you?

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom