Try this to encode your file. Decoding I beleive you can do. open (FILE, "C:\\perl\\original\.txt" ) or die ; open (FILE1,">C:\\perl\\converted\.txt") or die ; while (<FILE>) { @ascii = unpack("C*", $_); foreach $val (@ascii) { $val++; } $_ = pack("C*", @ascii); print FILE1; } close(FILE); close(FILE1);
regards Rajendran Burlingame,CA ----- Original Message ----- From: "NYIMI Jose (BMB)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 7:07 AM Subject: Hide a string while saving it to file I have a string (ascii). I would like to apply a rule on it before saving it to a file -> coding ... And apply the same rule to get the original string while reading from the file -> decoding ... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]