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Re: Re: help needed on encoding a text fileby bfdi533 (Friar) |
on Apr 02, 2003 at 19:55 UTC ( [id://247578]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Point well taken on mixing text and binmode. Doing the decode was getting pretty hairy as I had it.
I must say that I do not understand the pack("N(N/a*)" syntax. I know what N and a are but cannot find any docs on the parens; I did find docs on the slash and understand it now. (Though I have to admit that I have really TOTALLY avoided pack and unpack as they seem VERY confusing to me.) Also why 2 N's? Seems it could be written as N/a* per the perlfunc man page. Also, I get an error on the decoder as follows:
Extrapolating this out it would seem that there is a syntax error in the decoder as it is written unpack "(N(N/a))*",$ind; and is seems it should probably be unpack "N(N/a*)",$ind; but that does not produce any output, just blank lines. Ed
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