Re (tilly) 1: does anyone else codeuse Parse::FixedLength;/code?

The author of this module is princepawn. Yes, you should contact the author if you have a bug report (and this is definitely a bug report.)

But I don't happen to believe that you should use a module just because someone saw fit to write it. I am also not really a fan of fixed data records, but that is another story. But if fixed data formats are your need, then I recommend becoming friends with Perl's built-in utilities for that, tools like pack and unpack. Also davorg has a book about this kind of data manipulation which I have not read, but a lot of people seem to like.

Anyways I would suggest a bug report so the author can fix the module, and in the meantime either debug the module yourself or else work around using the module.

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Re: Re (tilly) 1: does anyone else codeuse Parse::FixedLength;/code? by cmilfo (Hermit) on Jun 22, 2001 at 00:16 UTC
I switched to the unpack. It solves the memory leak issue and speeds the program up. Sometimes I am in such a reuse mode that I forget the basics. Thank you!	[reply]