binary file creation clarification

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IJALAB

Hi All,

I have a file in the following format in txt file
ff68 adde ed5b 9ddc fe3d 7ad8 cf1c 2f39 c81c fbde be2a fcdf b9d9 e838 6a6c 0d4e 493e 9d2a 5f3c cc89 490c 29c9 efad 3d7e fc1b fb2b 3cae 7e0b 9c2f 3d6a 9df9 598e 5cfb daaa 2deb 79bd 1d99 8da8 98ab bfda b87d 194e ce2b a9db a899 cd6a 5af8 793c 5e1c af9e cf3c 9c9e c8bc fa9d ed9b 0bde aff8 7bcd 9fde 1abe 4b8b 5959 4839 2b9e 0d69 1b29 3d7d 0e9f ccba 2e8b f94a cbed fe3e 5dbe ad1a eda9 ce1d cf7a 3fca bc8e ff08 cbda 69bf cd1d

This is basically a jpeg file content and i need to make this file to .bin file so that i want to check if the jpeg is opening fine.

Can someone help on how this can be done. I am trying with the following code but since i have not used pack till now, i am not sure of my mistake. thanks for the help.

#!/usr/bin/perl

$buffer = "";
$infile = "Jpeg_hex.txt";
$outfile = "binary.bin";
open (INFILE, "<", $infile) or die "Not able to open the file. \n";
open (my $outfile, ">:raw", "binary.bin") or die "Not able to open the filefor writing. \n";
binmode (OUTFILE);


local $/ = \1;
while ( my $byte = <INFILE> ) {
print $outfile pack('s<', $byte) ;
}



close (INFILE) or die "Not able to close the file: $infile \n";
close ($outfile) or die "Not able to close the file: $outfile \n";



regards
bala
 
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Rainer Weikusat

IJALAB said:
I have a file in the following format in txt file
ff68 adde ed5b 9ddc fe3d 7ad8 cf1c 2f39 c81c fbde be2a fcdf b9d9 e838
6a6c 0d4e 493e 9d2a 5f3c cc89 490c 29c9 efad 3d7e fc1b fb2b 3cae 7e0b
9c2f 3d6a 9df9 598e 5cfb daaa 2deb 79bd 1d99 8da8 98ab bfda b87d 194e
ce2b a9db a899 cd6a 5af8 793c 5e1c af9e cf3c 9c9e c8bc fa9d ed9b 0bde
aff8 7bcd 9fde 1abe 4b8b 5959 4839 2b9e 0d69 1b29 3d7d 0e9f ccba 2e8b
f94a cbed fe3e 5dbe ad1a eda9 ce1d cf7a 3fca bc8e ff08 cbda 69bf cd1d

This is basically a jpeg file content and i need to make this file to
.bin file so that i want to check if the jpeg is opening fine.

Can someone help on how this can be done. I am trying with the
following code but since i have not used pack till now, i am not sure
of my mistake. thanks for the help.

Assuming that the byte order should be identical to the one in the text
file (ie, ff68 should end up as 0xff, 0x68 and not 0x68, 0xff), the
following loop works:

my $data;
while ($data = <INFILE>) {
for ($data) {
/\G([0-9a-f]{4})/gc && do {
print $outfile (pack('H4', $1));
redo;
};

/\G\s+/gc and redo;

/\G$/ and last;

die("Huh?\n");
}
}

Something like

print $outfile (pack('v', hex($1)));

could be used to convert the input 'numerically', ie, interpret ff68 as
0xff68 and write that in little-endian byte-order (bytes 0x68, 0xff).

NB: The inner for-loop shows an example of a lexical analyzer written in
Perl. /\G([0-9a-f]{4})/gc tries to match a 4-digit hex number at the
current match position. In case of success, it in converts than and
re-executed the loop. Should it fail, the /\G\s+/gc tries to match a
sequence of whitespace characters at the current match position. In case
of success, the loop is executed. Lastly /\G$/ looks for the end of the
string. If found, the inner loop is terminated. When none of the regexes
matched, the die is executed because the code doesn't know what to do
with the input. The \G anchors a regex match to the point where the last
regex match 'stopped matching', /g means 'find everything', ie, "don't
reset the match position to zero" and the /c "also, don't reset it in
case the match failed".
 
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IJALAB

I have a file in the following format in txt file
ff68 adde ed5b 9ddc fe3d 7ad8 cf1c 2f39 c81c fbde be2a fcdf b9d9 e838
6a6c 0d4e 493e 9d2a 5f3c cc89 490c 29c9 efad 3d7e fc1b fb2b 3cae 7e0b
9c2f 3d6a 9df9 598e 5cfb daaa 2deb 79bd 1d99 8da8 98ab bfda b87d 194e
ce2b a9db a899 cd6a 5af8 793c 5e1c af9e cf3c 9c9e c8bc fa9d ed9b 0bde
aff8 7bcd 9fde 1abe 4b8b 5959 4839 2b9e 0d69 1b29 3d7d 0e9f ccba 2e8b
f94a cbed fe3e 5dbe ad1a eda9 ce1d cf7a 3fca bc8e ff08 cbda 69bf cd1d

This is basically a jpeg file content and i need to make this file to
.bin file so that i want to check if the jpeg is opening fine.

Can someone help on how this can be done. I am trying with the
following code but since i have not used pack till now, i am not sure
of my mistake. thanks for the help.



Assuming that the byte order should be identical to the one in the text

file (ie, ff68 should end up as 0xff, 0x68 and not 0x68, 0xff), the

following loop works:



my $data;

while ($data = <INFILE>) {

for ($data) {

/\G([0-9a-f]{4})/gc && do {

print $outfile (pack('H4', $1));

redo;

};



/\G\s+/gc and redo;



/\G$/ and last;



die("Huh?\n");

}

}



Something like



print $outfile (pack('v', hex($1)));



could be used to convert the input 'numerically', ie, interpret ff68 as

0xff68 and write that in little-endian byte-order (bytes 0x68, 0xff).



NB: The inner for-loop shows an example of a lexical analyzer written in

Perl. /\G([0-9a-f]{4})/gc tries to match a 4-digit hex number at the

current match position. In case of success, it in converts than and

re-executed the loop. Should it fail, the /\G\s+/gc tries to match a

sequence of whitespace characters at the current match position. In case

of success, the loop is executed. Lastly /\G$/ looks for the end of the

string. If found, the inner loop is terminated. When none of the regexes

matched, the die is executed because the code doesn't know what to do

with the input. The \G anchors a regex match to the point where the last

regex match 'stopped matching', /g means 'find everything', ie, "don't

reset the match position to zero" and the /c "also, don't reset it in

case the match failed".

Hi Rainer
Your code worked perfect for my purpose. thanks a ton and thanks for the explanation of the syntax as well

regards
 
R

Rainer Weikusat

Rainer Weikusat said:
IJALAB said:
I have a file in the following format in txt file
ff68 adde ed5b 9ddc fe3d 7ad8 cf1c 2f39 c81c fbde be2a fcdf b9d9 e838
6a6c 0d4e 493e 9d2a 5f3c cc89 490c 29c9 efad 3d7e fc1b fb2b 3cae 7e0b
9c2f 3d6a 9df9 598e 5cfb daaa 2deb 79bd 1d99 8da8 98ab bfda b87d 194e
ce2b a9db a899 cd6a 5af8 793c 5e1c af9e cf3c 9c9e c8bc fa9d ed9b 0bde
aff8 7bcd 9fde 1abe 4b8b 5959 4839 2b9e 0d69 1b29 3d7d 0e9f ccba 2e8b
f94a cbed fe3e 5dbe ad1a eda9 ce1d cf7a 3fca bc8e ff08 cbda 69bf cd1d

This is basically a jpeg file content and i need to make this file to
.bin file so that i want to check if the jpeg is opening fine.

Can someone help on how this can be done. I am trying with the
following code but since i have not used pack till now, i am not sure
of my mistake. thanks for the help.

Assuming that the byte order should be identical to the one in the text
file (ie, ff68 should end up as 0xff, 0x68 and not 0x68, 0xff), the
following loop works:

my $data;
while ($data = <INFILE>) {
for ($data) {
/\G([0-9a-f]{4})/gc && do {
print $outfile (pack('H4', $1));
redo;
};

/\G\s+/gc and redo;

/\G$/ and last;

die("Huh?\n");
}
}

Assuming that input files don't contain errors, that debugging the code
is not intended and that having multiple copies of the data in memory is
no problem, this can also be written as

perl -e 'print pack "(H4)*", map { split " " } <>'

The input data can either be read from STDIN or from a file (or sequence
of files) passed as arguments, output will be written to STDOUT.
 

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