Jonathan Lee wrote:
>
> Hi all,
Hello,
> Can someone please help...
>
> I am trying to write a script to do the following -
>
> 1/ Open up a binary file to read.
>
> 2/ Read the file byte by byte.
Why do you think that you need to read the file a byte at a time?
> 3/ Convert the bytes read from binary to Hex.
perldoc -f ord
perldoc -f sprintf
perldoc -f pack
> I think the "binmode" and "pack" function should be used but can't get it
> right... or maybe I'm completely off the planet!
>
> binmode FILEHANDLE;
> read (FILEHANDLE, $var, 1);
> $out = pack("B8", $var);
It is not clear exactly what you want to do. Could you give an example
of what you want the output to look like?
John
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