From: Scott Haneda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello, I have this small C app that someone wrote for me ages ago, and > am tired of it breaking every time I move it around to various > systems, I will include it below. > > I am hoping I can do this in perl, as a one liner, were it will read a > the first 4 bytes of a file, grab 4 bytes out of the file, which is a > big endian value, and return that as an int to me.
perldoc -f read perldoc -f unpack perldoc -f pack And to simplify the code (so that you do not need to explicitely open the file), look also into perldoc perlvar at the ARGV filehandle. HTH, Jenda ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/