Re: how to use perl compare 2 binary files?

2008-11-23 Thread John W. Krahn
loody wrote: Dear all: Hello, I try to use perl to compare 2 binary files, one is display content dump from Dram and another is display content calculated by my c-model code. I use open and binmode to open these 2 files, and use programs as below to do the comparison

Re: how to use perl compare 2 binary files?

2008-11-22 Thread loody
2008/11/23 loody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Does that mean I should use "ne" instead of "!="? > BTW, is there any faster default function provide by Perl library to > compare 2 binary files? > thanks for your help, Hi: forget to explain my question more spe

Re: how to use perl compare 2 binary files?

2008-11-22 Thread Rodrick Brown
Check using a hash of the binary using something like MD5::Digest or something. On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:49 PM, loody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does that mean I should use "ne" instead of "!="? > BTW, is there any faster default function provide by Perl

Re: how to use perl compare 2 binary files?

2008-11-22 Thread loody
> Does that mean I should use "ne" instead of "!="? BTW, is there any faster default function provide by Perl library to compare 2 binary files? thanks for your help, miloody -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

how to use perl compare 2 binary files?

2008-11-22 Thread loody
Dear all: I try to use perl to compare 2 binary files, one is display content dump from Dram and another is display content calculated by my c-model code. I use open and binmode to open these 2 files, and use programs as below to do the comparison: $num_pattern=read PATTERN, $tmp_gold

Re: Replace first 2 bytes on binary files?

2008-10-05 Thread Dr.Ruud
"John W. Krahn" schreef: > Dr.Ruud: >> Mr. Shawn H. Corey: >>> Louise Hoffman: I would like to replace the first 2 bytes from ## to BM in all the files in a directory. The files are binary. >>> >>> Use glob to get the list of files. Use open with read-write to read >>> the first line a

Re: Replace first 2 bytes on binary files?

2008-10-05 Thread John W. Krahn
Dr.Ruud wrote: "Mr. Shawn H. Corey" schreef: Louise Hoffman: I would like to replace the first 2 bytes from ## to BM in all the files in a directory. The files are binary. Use glob to get the list of files. Use open with read-write to read the first line and replace the bytes. I wouldn't

Re: Replace first 2 bytes on binary files?

2008-10-05 Thread Dr.Ruud
"Mr. Shawn H. Corey" schreef: > Louise Hoffman: >> I would like to replace the first 2 bytes from ## to BM in all the >> files in a directory. The files are binary. > > Use glob to get the list of files. Use open with read-write to read > the first line and replace the bytes. I wouldn't read a "

Re: Replace first 2 bytes on binary files?

2008-10-05 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 04:44 -0700, Louise Hoffman wrote: > Dear programmers > > I am new to Perl, and was wondering, if someone could help me? > > I would like to replace the first 2 bytes from ## to BM in all the > files in a directory. The files are binary. > > Can that be done easily in Perl?

Replace first 2 bytes on binary files?

2008-10-05 Thread Louise Hoffman
Dear programmers I am new to Perl, and was wondering, if someone could help me? I would like to replace the first 2 bytes from ## to BM in all the files in a directory. The files are binary. Can that be done easily in Perl? Hope to hear from you =) Lots of love, Louise -- To unsubscribe, e-

Re: Reading binary files in Perl

2004-05-06 Thread John W. Krahn
Paul Harwood wrote: > > I am trying to read a binary file with the following code: > > $filename = "binary_file.rpy"; > open(FILE, $filename) or die "can't open $filename: $!"; > > binmode(FILE); > binmode(STDOUT); > > while (read(FILE, $buff, 8 * 2**10)) { > print STDOUT $buff; > }

Reading binary files in Perl

2004-05-06 Thread Paul Harwood
I am trying to read a binary file with the following code: $filename = "binary_file.rpy"; open(FILE, $filename) or die "can't open $filename: $!"; binmode(FILE); binmode(STDOUT); while (read(FILE, $buff, 8 * 2**10)) { print STDOUT $buff; } I get *some* rea

Re: binary files

2003-02-13 Thread Janek Schleicher
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:49:04 -0500, Sean Sugrue wrote: > I need to be able read the first few lines of a binary test file (i.e. > .staff form). Please define what is a line for you in a binary file. If it is just a normal line (ending on the line separator), you just can do the normal way, e.g.

binary files

2003-02-13 Thread Sugrue, Sean
I need to be able read the first few lines of a binary test file (i.e. .staff form). Does anyone know how to do this in purl. Sean -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to read binary files in perl

2003-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
HK said: > hi all, > i am a newbie to perl. > I have an application in C which will dump statistics (C structures) into > log files for post processing. > Can i read those log files from perl and form equivalent structures which > will help in analysing the files and generate a report on the stat

how to read binary files in perl

2003-01-29 Thread HK
hi all, i am a newbie to perl. I have an application in C which will dump statistics (C structures) into log files for post processing. Can i read those log files from perl and form equivalent structures which will help in analysing the files and generate a report on the statistics. TIA. -- reg

Re: Perl Unix Binary Files

2002-11-06 Thread John Pitchko
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Re: Perl Unix Binary Files

2002-11-05 Thread Jim
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Re: Perl Unix Binary Files

2002-11-03 Thread John Pitchko
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Re: Perl Unix Binary Files

2002-11-03 Thread Jim
On Saturday 02 November 2002 18:01, you wrote: | On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 04:00:44PM -0600, John Pitchko wrote: | > I've been racking my brains out trying to get Perl to write binary | > files for me. Here is my situation. For my Operating Systems class, we | > are designing a file

Re: Perl Unix Binary Files

2002-11-03 Thread zentara
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 16:00:44 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Pitchko) wrote: >Hi all. > >I've been racking my brains out trying to get Perl to write binary files for me. Here >is my situation. For my > >I was thinking that I would record the output from Data::Dumper into a

Re: Perl Unix Binary Files

2002-11-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 04:00:44PM -0600, John Pitchko wrote: > I've been racking my brains out trying to get Perl to write binary > files for me. Here is my situation. For my Operating Systems class, we > are designing a file system. One of the requirements is that the file > s

Perl Unix Binary Files

2002-11-02 Thread John Pitchko
Hi all. I've been racking my brains out trying to get Perl to write binary files for me. Here is my situation. For my Operating Systems class, we are designing a file system. One of the requirements is that the file system needs to be saved to disk as a binary file. I have a few large arr

RE: How to check between text & binary files

2002-10-14 Thread Toby Stuart
P. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 2:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How to check between text & binary files > > > > Hi, > > I want to write a .pl that will take in filenames as > parameters, and print out whether the files are

How to check between text & binary files

2002-10-14 Thread George P.
Hi, I want to write a .pl that will take in filenames as parameters, and print out whether the files are text files or binary files. The problem I'm having is that I can't figure out a good rule to use while deciding whether a file is a text-file or a binary-file. If someone has cr

Re: binary files

2002-06-08 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Fri, 07 Jun 2002 23:28:44 GMT, Eric Abell wrote: > My question is this: what is the difference between "c" and "C"? I > know what perldoc says - one is a signed char and the other is an > unsigned char. So if I have the value 230, shouldn't that be illegal > for a signed 8-bit number, since th

Re: binary files

2002-06-07 Thread John W. Krahn
Eric Abell wrote: > > I have an application that requires me to write normal string data or a > number into a binary file. For example, if I have the string "ff", I > want to write the byte FF to the output file. print chr(hex("ff")); > If I have the number 1, I want to write the byte 01 to the

binary files

2002-06-07 Thread Eric Abell
I have an application that requires me to write normal string data or a number into a binary file. For example, if I have the string "ff", I want to write the byte FF to the output file. If I have the number 1, I want to write the byte 01 to the output file. I have been using the pack function

Re: binary files

2001-08-15 Thread Peter Scott
At 04:58 PM 8/15/01 -0600, Tyler Cruickshank wrote: >Hello. Im still struggling with converting a binary file to an ascii >file. I just dont understand how to use seek and unpack. I understand >that one needs to know the format of the binary file, therefore, I have >pasted below FORTRAN code

binary files

2001-08-15 Thread Tyler Cruickshank
Hello. Im still struggling with converting a binary file to an ascii file. I just dont understand how to use seek and unpack. I understand that one needs to know the format of the binary file, therefore, I have pasted below FORTRAN code that reads the ascii file and writes a binary file. Th

Re: binary files

2001-07-31 Thread Luke Bakken
To read binary files, you need to understand read(), seek() and unpack(), as well as the underlying binary structure of the file. Peeking into the file with a hex editor will help distinguish the ASCII bits from the rest. If you know the C code that creates the file, that can help a lot! Luke

Re: binary files

2001-07-31 Thread Michael Fowler
ines that > differentiate between ascii and binary files. I have tried the following > and just get the binary form printed back out at me (the expected result): binmode() is indeed for operating systems that differentiate between ascii and binary, but such operating systems are not old.

RE: binary files

2001-07-31 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Tyler Cruickshank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: binary files > > > Hello. > > Looking for some binary file help. I want to read, > manipulate, and pr

binary files

2001-07-31 Thread Tyler Cruickshank
Hello. Looking for some binary file help. I want to read, manipulate, and print (in ascii) a binary file on a solaris 7 machine. I have looked into and tried the binmode() function but this seems to be for older machines that differentiate between ascii and binary files. I have tried the

RE: Reading binary files

2001-07-26 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Sambamoorthy Jayaraman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 2:32 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Reading binary files > > > Hi, > > How do I read a binary file?? From this file, I need to re

Re: Reading binary files

2001-07-26 Thread Maxim Berlin
Hello Sambamoorthy, Thursday, July 26, 2001, Sambamoorthy Jayaraman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SJ> How do I read a binary file?? From this file, I need to read 16 bit values. SJ> I have attached a sample binary file alongwith. When you are reading this SJ> file, enable `hex edit mode'. perldoc

Reading binary files

2001-07-25 Thread Sambamoorthy Jayaraman
Hi, How do I read a binary file?? From this file, I need to read 16 bit values. I have attached a sample binary file alongwith. When you are reading this file, enable `hex edit mode'. Any help will be deeply appreciated. Regards, Samba __