On 09/20/2006 01:29 AM, Welly Hartanto wrote:
I've managed to create an application for reading some bytes of data from an id card reader connected into a serial port. But it's under Win$ ... So, now I've been trying for at least capturing the data then convert it the way I want. The convertion is called "byte to hex string" convertion. [...]
Read "perldoc -f pack"; it's easy to convert hex strings in perl: my $gotit = 'Every good boy does fine.'; my $hex = unpack('H*', $gotit); print $hex, "\n"; my @hex = map "0x$_", $hex =~ m/../g; print "@hex\n"; I hope this helps. -- paduille.4058.mumia.w@earthlink.net