Jasmine
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Jan 26, 2001, 10:04 AM
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How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files?
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(From the Perl FAQ)
How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files?
The most efficient way is using pack() and unpack(). This is faster than using substr() when take many, many strings. It is slower for just a few.
Here is a sample chunk of code to break up and put back together again some fixed-format input lines, in this case from the output of a normal, Berkeley-style ps: # sample input line:
# 15158 p5 T 0:00 perl /home/tchrist/scripts/now-what
$PS_T = 'A6 A4 A7 A5 A*';
open(PS, "ps|");
print scalar <PS>;
while (<PS>) {
($pid, $tt, $stat, $time, $command) = unpack($PS_T, $_);
for $var (qw!pid tt stat time command!) {
print "$var: <$$var>\n";
}
print 'line=', pack($PS_T, $pid, $tt, $stat, $time, $command),
"\n";
}
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