On Feb 4, Rob Dixon said: >If you set the input record separator variable to a number, it will do >fixed-length reads from the file. THen you can use 'unpack' to split >each record into its constituent fields. Try like this:
As per my response, it must be a REFERENCE to a number: > $/ = 65; should be \65, not 65. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <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]
