Re: extracting the text out of a binary file

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You can filter the string to just accept range of the numbers and letters.
ASCII table: http://www.lookuptables.com/
But why do you read binary files using text file methods?


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Saber S.
"RSH" <way_beyond_oops@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OyIi6tcmFHA.3960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> I have quite a few .DAT data files that i need to extract the data out of.
> When i open the files in a text editor I see all of the text that I need
> to get at BUT there are a lot of junk (binary?) characters and white space
> in non logical formatting positions.
>
> Here is a small sample of what the data looks like:
>
> 0~ 0501101010512505011132451235 >   ô ô  
> X 3> Bô
>  
>
> MICHAEL B SMITH, DVM PC 123 MAIN ST., STE 600 DALLAS, TX 75252
> MICHAEL SMITH Õ
> s ' 'MICHAEL B NORTON, DVM PC 123 MAIN ST., STE 600 DALLAS, TX
> 75252 ÌZkM Ô 
> Bô
> < Ô ' Ò '
>  ' 
> '  ' '  ' â ' Bô
>  -D Õ  â ' Bô
>
>
> Is it possible to filter out all the junk characters and just get at the
> text? If so could you provide a sample of how?
>
> I tried doing a string replace but the number of characters in the array
> were getting way out of control. I was wondering if the binaryreader
> class might be what I'm looking for but I have no idea on what that really
> does.
>
> Thanks!
> RSH
>


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