Perl Parse .bin file

acandria17 · 07-06-2009, 05:54 PM

Hello everyone!

I've got a problem trying to parse through a .bin file. Ive parsed through a txt file already but im having trouble with the .bin since i am unable to read it. Should i somehow convert the bin to ascii before i try anything? If you have any suggestions or thoughts, I am all ears. Thanks in advance!

chrism01 · 07-07-2009, 12:52 AM

Depends on exactly what the .bin file represents. Normally on Linux its a self-extracting file; ie you give it exe perms and run it:

chmod u+x file.bin
./file.bin

You need to know what it really contains, what format its in. There may well be a pre-written Perl module that will help.

j-ray · 07-07-2009, 05:42 AM

if it contains binary data you should not convert that to ascii. As chrism01 said there is a module for binary parsing here
http://search.cpan.org/~audreyt/Pars...arse/Binary.pm
among others...