#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
#use warnings;

sub ascii_to_hex ($)
{
	## Convert each ASCII character to a two-digit hex number.
	(my $str = shift) =~ s/(.|\n)/sprintf("%02lx", ord $1)/eg;
	return $str;
}

my @a_out;
my @a_str;
my @b_str;
my $str;
my $index="0";
my $count;
my $flag;
my $file= 'rules.txt';
my $statenum="0";
my $num="0";
my $file1= 'XXX.txt';
my $file2= 'happ.txt';
my $file3= 'hex.txt';
my $match=quotemeta ("|");
my $space=quotemeta (" ");


open INFILE, "<$file"
  or die "can't open file: $!";

open OUTFILE2, ">$file3"
  or die "can't open file: $!";

open OUTFILE, ">$file1"
  or die "can't open file: $!";
open OUTFILE1, ">$file2"
  or die "can't open file: $!";


while( my $line = <INFILE> )
{
 
	$num=$num+1;
       my $digits='0';
        my $index2=length($line);
  	print ("Processing Rule",$num,"\n");
	@a_str = split(//, $line);
       
        print (OUTFILE1 @a_str,"\n");
foreach(@a_str)
   { chomp($_);
    print(OUTFILE2 $a_str[$index],"\n");
    print(($a_str[$index]),"\n");
     
      if ($count=='0')
	{
 	 if (($a_str[$index])==$match) 
        {$count='1'; ("count=",$count,"START OF PIPE:",$a_str[$index],"\n");}
        elsif (($a_str[$index])==$space) 
        { print (OUTFILE $a_str[$index]);print ("SAVING ASCII SPACE:",$a_str[$index],"\n");}
        else { my $hex = ascii_to_hex($a_str[$index]);
		        print (OUTFILE $hex); print ("SAVING ASCII ELEMENTS OUTSIDE PIPE",$hex,"\n");
             }
	}	

	elsif($count=='1') 
	{  
       if (($a_str[$index])==$match){ $count='0'; print("count=",$count,"END OF PIPE:", $a_str[$index],"\n");}
       elsif (($a_str[$index])==$space){ print ($a_str[$index],"SKIPPING BINARY SPACE","\n");} 
       else {
        print (OUTFILE $a_str[$index]); print ("SAVING ELEMENTS IN BETW PIPE",$a_str[$index],"\n");
	     }
       } 
       
    $index=$index+1;
    print($index,"\t" );
   } 
print ("\n");       
print (OUTFILE1 "\n"); 
print (OUTFILE "\n"); 
print (OUTFILE2 "\n");

}

close INFILE
  or die "can't close file: $!";

close OUTFILE1
  or die "can't close file: $!";
close OUTFILE2
  or die "can't close file: $!";

close OUTFILE
  or die "can't close file: $!";