Peter, I assume you do not have access to a UNIX? If you did, the first thing I would do is to run a "strings" on the database file. That may give you more than the limited 'charset below, but it would be trivially easy. - Michael Jelinek -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] Salvaging ASCII data from binary file Hi, I have been given a messed up (beyond hope) database file of 5MB and would like to remove all the extended and unprintable characters, then save the result as a text file. The following displays the characters: good-chars: charset [#" " - #"/" #"0" - #"9" #"A" - #"Z" #"a" - #"z"] file: to-file ask "Filename? " data: read/binary file forall data [ if find good-chars first data [ print to-string copy/part data 1 ] ] but what is the best way to collect all of these and save as a plain ASCII text file, say, good.txt ? Thanks, -------------------------------------- Peter H. Geddes; Savannah, Georgia USA <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------
