Re: Read structure in Perl

As others note, more details are needed to really give you the answer.

The general Perl way to unpack structures such as those typically read by fread in C may involve use of the unpack function.

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Re^2: Read structure in Perl by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 22, 2010 at 11:55 UTC
As a hard-core alternative to unpack, there is Convert::Binary::C, which can take a C structure and a C compiler (even one for a different architecture), and unpack data in that C structure from Perl.	[reply]
Re^3: Read structure in Perl by spazm (Monk) on Mar 22, 2010 at 15:09 UTC
Thanks for the tip! Looks like less work in the long run. Hardcore indeed!	[reply]