Re: [mh] Perl code problem

[Neil C. <nc...@co...>]

Matthew Williams wrote:
> Neil Cherry wrote:
>>     @bytes = split //, $data;
>>
>>     $byte = $bytes[0];
>>
>>     printf("GRRR iplcs Chk: 0x%02x (%s)[%d]\n", $byte, $hex, @bytes);
>>
> 
> Neil, try using $#bytes to get the length of the array.  It is possible that
> the printf isn't forcing perl to treat @bytes as a scalar.
> 
> On a side note, @bytes = split //, $data will actually fill @bytes with
> nibbles (half a byte), not bytes.  You probably want something like this
> instead:
> 
> @bytes=unpack('(a2)*',$data);

Oh, that makes more sense as to why I kept getting NULLs in my
array. I'll give that a try.

Thanks, I think you've resolved the last problem (I hope :-).

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