Re: [PATCH perlfaq5] "How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files?"
[email protected] (Iain Truskett)
| Newsgroups | perl.perlfaq.workers |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Further to that question, L<...> stuff added to the first paragraph: cheers, -- Iain.
fixedfn.patch
(text/plain, 877 B)
Index: perlfaq5.pod =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/public/perlfaq/perlfaq5.pod,v retrieving revision 1.29 diff -u -r1.29 perlfaq5.pod --- perlfaq5.pod 12 Aug 2003 02:44:46 -0000 1.29 +++ perlfaq5.pod 22 Nov 2003 14:29:29 -0000 @@ -153,8 +153,10 @@ =head2 How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files? -The most efficient way is using pack() and unpack(). This is faster than -using substr() when taking many, many strings. It is slower for just a few. +The most efficient way is using L<pack()|perlfunc/"pack"> and +L<unpack()|perlfunc/"unpack">. This is faster than using +L<substr()|perlfunc/"substr"> when taking 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,