On Feb 4, Bob Showalter said:
>Christopher M Burger wrote:
>> I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to parse a datafile
>> with fixed length records but no carriage returns. All records are
>> on one line.
>
>The read() function lets you read a fixed block of bytes.
So does the <> operator, if you set $/ to a reference to a number.
> while(read(F, $buf, 65)) {
Can be:
$/ = \65;
while (<F>) {
> my ($f1, $f2, $f3) = unpack 'a10 a15 a40', $_;
Also, Bob, you read into $buf, but you're upacking $_.
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