Re: Binary Large Objects (BLOB) decoding

2005-10-27 Thread John W. Krahn
Tom Allison wrote: > I'm making a crude attempt to parse through some database BLOBS with > some success. Some of the information is in XML format, some in > "text". But a lot of crud exists because of the binary characters. > > I originally tried this: > > my $ascii = unpack("A*", $blob); The

Binary Large Objects (BLOB) decoding

2005-10-27 Thread Tom Allison
I'm making a crude attempt to parse through some database BLOBS with some success. Some of the information is in XML format, some in "text". But a lot of crud exists because of the binary characters. I originally tried this: my $ascii = unpack("A*", $blob); but with limited success. At least