donfreenut has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:


I'm trying to reconstruct a dBase Memo file. The file is broken into 512-byte chunks, each representing a Memo.

How can I read these 512-byte chunks? Should I be hacking at the record separator?
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Re: How do I slurp an arbitrary number of bytes from a file?
by davorg (Chancellor) on Mar 22, 2001 at 20:59 UTC

    You can use read as merlyn points out, but you can also do it by setting the input record separator to a scalar reference.

    {
  local $/ = \512;

  while (<FILE>) {
    # process the 512 bytes you have in $_
  }
}

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Re: How do I slurp an arbitrary number of bytes from a file?
by merlyn (Sage) on Mar 22, 2001 at 20:55 UTC
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