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Old 03-15-2017
Help needed on my $format

I am stuck with values in existing program perl script...

Code:
my $format ="a40a9a*";

please help me to understand what is the value of "a40a9a*".

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by rbatte1; 03-17-2017 at 08:36 AM.. Reason: Added CODE tags
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Old 03-17-2017
I suppose it depends on where you then use it. As you have it, it is just a literal string.

It could be used as a filename to search, policy reference for car insurance (to search by type) hardware manufacturer if you are setting up asset tracking system or all sorts of things.

Can you give a bit more context in where you found this and what you are trying to achieve?


Thanks, in advance,
Robin
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Old 03-17-2017
Hi.

N.B.:
Quote:
Originally Posted by rbatte1
Can you give a bit more context in where you found this and what you are trying to achieve?
This looks like a pack/unpack format.

See man perlpacktut, where code like:
Code:
... unpack("A10xA27xA7A*" ...

is discussed.

See perldoc -f pack for a table of the format descriptors.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl
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Old 03-17-2017
Thanks Robin and drl.

Found the answer "a40" is 4th column of the line and "a9a" is nine bytes length.

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Thanks once again!
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