Re: Reading Fixed Width Records.

Book:
Data Munging With Perl!!! By Dave Cross (davorg), it has a section on this (Chapter 7 - Fixed Width and Binary Data)
(it has a section on most stuff, it's nice).

Pedantry:

Please clarify what you want to achieve in english, and use the code to support this.
Please change your title, there are many ways to read data, how about "Reading fixed width fields"?

Off the Cuff:
Use regular expressions specifically @fields = m/(.{$width})/g; (as on page 129 of Data Munging With Perl)

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Brother Frankus.

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Re: Re: Reading in Data by skullbowl (Monk) on May 10, 2001 at 14:34 UTC
Thanks for the feedback & suggestion. I didn't know my english was not english. Basically i have a data file with fixed width fields and i am trying to read in these data. Will try to find the book that u mentioned. Btw, how does one change the title of a Root Node? `use Text::Soundex; print soundex ("Skullbowl");` [download] RESULT : S414	[reply] [d/l]