in reply to Difficulty restraining read function to 32 bits
while (($n = read FILE, $buffer, 4)) { $decimal = unpack("N", pack("B32", $buffer));
$buffer gets a four byte (32 bit) binary string read from the file and then you convert that with pack("B32", $buffer)??? That pack is not doing what you seem to think it is doing. You just need the unpack:
$decimal = unpack 'N', $buffer;
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