[olug] Database export problem

[Nick Veys]

If you haven't looked at it in a hex editor, you may want to, that
"garbage" may be meaningful and useful in extracting the data, I don't
know too many formats where sections of random garbage get thrown in
for fun.

On 10/6/05, sul3n3t at cox.net <sul3n3t at cox.net> wrote:
> Eric,
>
> If you can't run a search and replace regex, I don't know. I'm surpised it the database won't at least support CSV.
>
> Justin Cummins
>
>
> > From: Eric Lusk <wyrmzr72 at yahoo.com>
> > Date: 2005/10/06 Thu PM 06:22:37 EDT
> > To: olug <olug at olug.org>
> > Subject: [olug] Database export problem
> >
> > I'm trying to export a proprietary database format so
> > that it can be read by Excel.  The standard format of
> > the database files gives lots of garbage from carriage
> > returns, spaces, etc., in Linux or Windoze.
> > The program itself has an export option, but that only
> > exports 3-4 fields to an tab-delimited file.  I'm
> > going to try and modify the export options tonight and
> > keep my fingers crossed.
> > Anyone else have any ideas about removing the garbage
> > from a proprietary file?  I dread telling the client
> > they'll have to manually input 9000 clients....
> > TIA
> >
> >
> >
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