gp2_to_bin.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# 
# by Matija Nalis <mnalis-android@voyager.hr> GPLv3+, started 2014-06-21
# parse SLCLog.gp2 and create raw binary data (for passing to gpsd or similar)
#
# Usage: ./gp2_to_bin.pl data/2/SLCLog.gp2 > SLCLog.bin
#

use strict;
use autodie;

$|=1;

while (<>) {
  next if /^\s*$/;				# skip empty lines
  next if /^\s*#/;				# skip comment lines
  s/^.*\(0\) //; 				# remove timestamps etc
  s/#.*$//;					# remove comments at the end of line
  s/\s+//g; 					# no whitespace allowd for pack
  print pack "H*", $_;
#  sleep 1;		# comment out if not affected by gpsd(8) bug https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?36409
}