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Re: Clarification of packed conversion problem.
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Donna Garverick <[log in to unmask]>
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Donna Garverick <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 15 May 2002 12:29:22 -0700
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"Wayne R. Boyer" wrote:

> Oh dear!  Using Perl will make this much harder.

that's a matter of opinion :-)

> Me not being a Perl expert though, could you write a little subroutine
> in COBOL to do a conversion and then call it from Perl code?

you'd probably have nasty issue with passing the data back and forth....

> Otherwise you might get to invent a Perl routine to do this.

invent in perl?  nah :-)

> (who is highly interested in Perl and would like to see how this gets solved!)

how about this?
<http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/pod/func/pack.html>             - d

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