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On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, MATTHEW BROWNING wrote:
Good morning. I wish to sort a file of binary data wherein the entries are delimited by nothing. Doesn`t sound like it should be too hard but I am rather stuck; can anyone tell me what I should be reading?
The perl cookbook (the oreilly one, not the matt wright one which is godawful and should be avoided at all costs). perl pack and unpack are your friends. they allow you to muck about with binary data without dirty your hands mucking about with malloc and sprintf in C. have a poke around perlmonks.org and perl.org or search cpan.org for a module that does all the work for you. anyways C or Perl are the tools you are after.. remember - perl is always the best tool for the job, every other language is not DWIM compliant (Do What I Mean standard 2002). A. -- <A HREF = "http://termisoc.org/~betty";> Betty @ termisoc.org </A> "As a youngster Fred fought sea battles on the village pond using a complex system of signals he devised that was later adopted by the Royal Navy. " (this email has nothing to do with any organisation except me) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.