Re: Re: unpack format string for ignoring chars


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Re: Re: unpack format string for ignoring chars

by LanceDeeply (Chaplain)

on Feb 13, 2004 at 21:51 UTC ( [id://328888]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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thanks!

i just didnt know how to use x properly, got a little confused reading the doc.
i added x1 to the format string wherever i wanted to ignore a character

    my $count = 0;
    foreach my $len (@lens)
    {
        if ( $count ++ ) 
        {
            $format .= "x1";
        }
        $format .= "A$len";
    }
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does the deed nicely