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From: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: structs?
Message-ID: <18249@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>
Date: 1 Jul 90 12:07:18 GMT
Reply-To: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Organization: Network Information Center; SRI International
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I've got a data file that is of the format struct; that is, data is written out
with a C definition of thus:

	struct load {
	        time_t  time;
	        ushort  load;
	};

(note that this is on a sun, and <time.h> is included, giving the struct for
time)

Now, reading the data from C is trivial; problem is, what I do with the
data once I've read it is far more appropriate to perl than C.  However,
I don't see anything in the man page in regards to structs, other than a brief
mention in the area of pack/unpack.  

Is it possible to read this file from perl, or would it be easier all around to
use a simple C program to read the data, then pipe it into perl?

Thanks..

--Chan
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