Re: [MacPerl] newbie question: binary file manipulation

[Pudge <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 0:09 -0300 1999.08.12, Sébastien Maury wrote:
>	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 ?

Macs (and MacPerl) don't distinguish between binary and text files like DOS
and its derivatives do.  Just open as you normally would.  If the program
is going to be used on a platform that distinguises between text and
binary, then after you open FILEHANDLE, do a binmode(FILEHANDLE).

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Chris Nandor          mailto:pudge@pobox.com         http://pudge.net/
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