I second this. I had to write code to parse a DBF file as part of a suite to handle "shapefiles" (GIS) and it was really not a huge effort. These formats are designed to be pretty straightforward to parse.
--Graham On 23/12/2011, at 3:04 PM, Charles Srstka wrote: > On Dec 22, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Alexander Reichstadt wrote: > >> I should add, you are right in that it also says: >> >> n+1, 1 byte, 0x0D stored as the Field Descriptor terminator. >> >> Everything from byte 68 on is then a multiple of 48 bytes, so I can simply >> check on each 67+(n*48)+1 to see if that byte is 0x0D, which is the marker >> position of which to follow Mike's advise on getting the subdata. > > So parse the fields in the header that tell you how long it’s supposed to be, > and read the data where the actual string is supposed to start. It’ll > probably actually take less time overall than trying to come up with all > these workarounds. > > If you’re going to do something, might as well do it right. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
