in reply to Re^7: Help Please: FCS Binary 2 ASCII conversion
in thread Help Please: FCS Binary 2 ASCII conversion

sorry about missing the code tags
  "\$BEGINANALYSIS"    => 0,
  "\$BEGINDATA"        => 1794,
  "\$BEGINSTEXT"       => 0,
  "\$BYTEORD"          => "4,3,2,1",
  "\$DATATYPE"         => "F",
  "\$ENDANALYSIS"      => 0,
  "\$ENDDATA"          => "441793             ",
  "\$ENDSTEXT"         => 0,
  "\$FIL"              => "4031.fcs",
  "\$INST"             => " ",
  "\$MODE"             => "L",

I am running Linux
memory 1.9 GiB
2 CPU Intel(R) core(TM)2 Duo CPU

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Re^9: Help Please: FCS Binary 2 ASCII conversion
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 13, 2010 at 04:47 UTC

    Hm. Same file format. Same hardware. Different result. That leaves your perl version.

    I think maybe the endian formats '>' & '<' didn't get into Perl until 5.10, so if you're running 5.8 that could explain the different results. But...are you getting any error messages?

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