Re^2: How to read encrypted data from informix database into a single variable

No, i am on HP-UX. i think working with hex dump, would be an better option for my problem

I have taken, hex unload to a file. It contains around 25,000 records. It is not possible to extract a single record (unique keys are such, that i cannot use them at runtime). So now i want to read , 32 bytes of this file ( the hex dump) at a time (in an scalar variable) and skip 2 bytes after - each 32 byte read. can you suggest me a way to do this!

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Re^3: How to read encrypted data from informix database into a single variable by shmem (Chancellor) on May 15, 2007 at 13:41 UTC
Well, I'd do something along these lines.. `open my $fh, '<', $file or die "Can't read '$file': $!\n"; while((my $len = read $fh, my $record, 32) == 32) { # do something with $record ... (read $fh, my $junk, 2) == 2 or last; }` [download] Oh wait... yes, use strict, use warnings :-) --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: How to read encrypted data from informix database into a single variable by Dev (Initiate) on May 16, 2007 at 09:10 UTC
I took a hex dump and analysing hex dump, was good idea. It simplified lot of things. I took, unload of encrypted data in an file. And then from byte patterns and using simple read() and seek(), i was able to extract the actual encrypted data bytes as i intended to do. Thank you for your inputs :) . have a nice day	[reply]