"eShopping" <etrade.griffi...@dsl.pipex.com> wrote
I now understand why Python gave me the results it did ... it looks
like reading the FORTRAN file will be a non-trivial task so probably
best to wait until I can post a copy of it.
You don't say which OS you are on but you can read the
binary file into a hex editor and see the structure. If you are on
*nix
you can use od -x and if on Windows run debug and use the d
command to display the file as hex
Using that you should be able to determine whether fields are
fixed length or delimited by a particular character or tagged
with a length prefix etc.
HTH,
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
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