in reply to RegEx on Binary data

Like runrig said, you probably want to unpack the individual fields first, but in answer to your question, perhaps something like: 
$packed_record =~ /^[\x00-\xff]{8,15}\xaa\xbb\xcc/;

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Re^2: RegEx on Binary data
by rdaniels_77 (Initiate) on Oct 02, 2012 at 19:59 UTC
    Thanks...

    The library approach doesn't actually work for me. I should have prefaced that I am not using raw Perl, but compiled PCRE in C language, so I needed the raw RegEx.

    I'll play with that expression...

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