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From: Michael Peppler <mpeppler at peppler dot org>
Subject: Re: extracting data at a specific displacement
Date: Jun 12 2000 2:26PM
Klein, Shoshana R writes:
> I'm a mainframe programmer with a minimal amount of experience with perl.
>
>
> Is there a way to extract data from a flat file based on a specific
> displacement and length?
> Until now I've been using regular expressions to match the data I need, but
> I find this
> very time consuming when I know I want bytes 43-63 no matter what it
> contains.
You can use substr() or unpack() for this.
Michael
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