in reply to Re: Reading Hex file data
in thread Reading Hex file data

you will have to convert the binary into Perl format

Are you talking about fixed-width data manipulation or are you talking about the use of pack and unpack to convert between data types?, While the OP hasn't provided any sample input or output we're left to assume things but I am confused by what you meant when you said "Perl format" ....


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Re^3: Reading Hex file data
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 20, 2010 at 15:00 UTC
    Perl's representation of a number (scalar) rather than the machine representation (which Perl can't manipulate).