Parsing the data

[Coderifous]

Hey all,

I have a C++ prog that parses a specific data file, but am trying to write a perl script to perform the same function. For portability reasons.

Basically, the fscanf() function is used to read the data, and I just need to translate the fscanf() template characters, over to perls unpack(). That's my current guess anyways.

Included are: %c %s %ld %d

I do have "field positions and widths" so that's not an issue.

Anyone know how to translate this from C++ to perl?

Thanks for the help,

--jim

 

[Coderifous]

bump

 

[justice41]

hi jim

if you're reading a text file and you know the 'field positions and widths', then why doesn't the 'A' format work for *all* fields in the unpack expression?

jaa

 

[Coderifous]

I'll give that a shot Justice.

I thought that the %l in fscanf() was more along the longs of reading binary data that would need to be interpreted as such, like a long integer.

But I couldn't really work out the specifics. I'll give your suggestion a shot, and post whether it worked.

I have a sneaking suspicion that my data file is fubar anyways. Customer provided of course.

Thanks bud,

--jim