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Re: Re: Reading fixed length records
by tigervamp (Friar) on May 25, 2001 at 17:19 UTC
    I know that I could use pack/unpack, but I would like to know what I am doing wrong in this case, since there is a very similiar example in "Programming Perl" (pg. 666) that claims to work as described.

    tigervamp