On Sep 4, zanardi2k2 said: >I extract data from an AS/400 table, and i am not able to get a decent >CSV format. So i have to choose a fixed-width format. Now i have to get >all values. Is there something better than: > >$var1=substr($_, 0, 10) >$var2=substr($_, 11, 16) >$var3=...
Sounds like you want unpack(): @fields = unpack "A10 x A16 x ...", $_; The A# means "# characters", and the x means "skip a byte". perldoc -f unpack -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
