[MacPerl] newbie question: binary file manipulation

["Sébastien Maury" <maury@justmagic.com>]

	Hi,

	I am learning perl to do file manipulation. I managed to do 
what I want with text file but I have to convert big (about 100Mo) 
text data file (list of points coord.) in binary file. Is it possible 
? For example, I would like to convert line input :

x = 12.1 y = 13.4

in the binary form
XXXX YYYY (float on 4 bytes)

Is there a special option in the open statement or something like that ?

Thanks in advance, Sebastien

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