I use many different languages here at work, from Assembly, Rexx, to other mainframe languages. One thing I find it difficult to do with Perl is the handling of Hex characters. This may seem like a very generalized question, forgive me for trying to find a "Better way to do it". Picture having a flat file, or an SQL table (Doesn't matter that much), I want to delimit a field within a field, like having options. I can't use the TAB (\t) character, because when I use the "foreach" the sub fields also get "Split", therefore loosing what I am attempting to do. So I wanted to use a hex character, let's say something simple, hex'01' for example. What do you guys use for saying something like:
$loc = index($rec, $HexValue); OR @sub_field1 = split(/$HexValue/, $rec);
Where the $HexValue is either a variable that contains my hex'01' or the absolute value itself.
I've used 'sprintf' to limited success, but in other languages this is very simple. I'm looking for some different ways to do this, after all, that's what Perl is all about right? TIMTOWTDI...
What's some of your things you guys use??
Thanks, ahead of time.
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
