Does anybody had success parsing *.idx and *.dat files with ruby or perl? I have an old application, without the source code and i want to parse files generated by this legacy code.
Any direction?
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Does anybody had success parsing *.idx and *.dat files with ruby or perl? I have an old application, without the source code and i want to parse files generated by this legacy code.
Any direction?
Looking on CPAN does throw up a few modules
The top possibilities are:
However these are both circa 2000 and are failing tests. Here are reports from CPAN Testers for these modules:
So YMMV with these modules but it may give you the leg up u need?