Hi all
I am storing some data in a long string of "ints":
open my $fh, "<", $file or die $!;
while (<$fh>){
my ($key,$val) = split /\t/;
substr($bin,$key*4,4,pack("N",$val));
}
Since the $keys in the file are not sorted, I need to initialize substr with enough values (to avoid a "substr outside of string" error). Currently I am doing it like follows:
substr($bin,$_*4,4,pack ("N",0)) for (0..$last_val);
Is there a more efficient way (maybe in one go instead of looping) of doing this?
Thanks in advance
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