Hi,
open(FILEHANDLE, filename);
binmode(FILEHANDLE);
above two statements will work if you want to read a binary file.
There is not need of using read function here.
Regards,
Ganesh
"John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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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