Here are a couple of routines I used to convert some hex data fields...

sub DecodeBCD {
# Convert a string of hex digits such as "x\12x\34x\56"
# into a string of ASCII characters such as "123456".
    my $str = shift;
    my $hex;
    $hex .= sprintf "%02x", ord
        for split //, $str;
    return $hex;
} # End of Sub DecodeBCD

sub DecodeBCA {
# Convert a string of packed ALPHA digits such as "x\BDx\CCx\FF"
# into a string of ASCII characters such as "BDCCFF".
    my $str = shift;
    my $hex;
    if (length($str) > 0) {
       $hex .= sprintf "%02x", ord
           for split //, $str;
    } else {
       $hex = 0;
    }
    return $hex;
} # End of Sub DecodeBCD

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Bugs/Blames are mine, any credit goes to the Monestary.
Too many monks to mention had a hand in this, it was my first perl program, & not so long ago. ;-)

In reply to Re: using sprintf to print binary data collected from the serial port by Aim9b
in thread using sprintf to print binary data collected from the serial port by Bruce32903

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