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ID DAT db filesby gryphon (Abbot) |
on Jul 08, 2002 at 04:25 UTC ( [id://180086]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
gryphon has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: Greetings fellow monks, I have an interesting and strange problem: I have a series of database files (15 to be exact) that I'd like to read data from. However, I don't have a clue what RDBMS (or even just DBMS) the files belong to. They all have *.DAT extention, but the various sites I've searched in hopes to find out what these are simply say they're "database files". (Yeah, I knew that already.) Once I figure out where the files come from, I could probably hack something together with DBI and some old DBD from CPAN. In the meantime, I'm stuck. Is there anything out there that can do a "detect" and convert on these files? Or perhaps at least point me in the right direction? The files don't seem to have any naming on them with the following possible exception: All of the files have positions 02 through 04 at the start of the file read FF, FF, 58. And it looks like character 03 is used as a column seperator. And 2E ends a record. Any thoughts or ideas? If I can't find anything really promising soon, I'm probably going to just write something to manually parse this stuff out of the original binary, but that idea frightens me. -gryphon
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