Even your typo fix appears to be wrong. Maybe the problem is that you should
be reading 'SRC' and not 'DEST'. Assuming 'DEST' is empty until you print to
it then the answer your getting would make since if your reading 'DEST' for
your input.
Chris Moore
cmoore@washpat.com
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From: <mark@bish.net>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Perl Question
>
>
> Ignore the typo:
> (read(BRIEF
>
> it should say:
> (read(DEST
>
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 mark@bish.net wrote:
>
> >
> > Why doesn't this work?
> >
> > open(SRC, "<$file1") or die "Can't open for reading: $!\n";
> > open(DEST, ">$file2") or die "Can't open for reading: $!\n";
> >
> > binmode(SRC);
> > binmode(DEST);
> >
> > while(read(BRIEF, $buff, 2)){
> > $buff = hex ($buff) ^ 0xAA;
> > print DEST $buff;
> > }
> >
> > close(DEST);
> > close(SRC);
> >
> >
> >
> > I get a text file filled with 170, which is 0xAA.
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