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From: rich@aoa.UUCP (Rich Snow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: SDF database format, ever heard of it?
Keywords: HELP me translate SDF data
Message-ID: <1502@aoa.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 91 19:02:58 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Adaptive Optics Associates, Cambridge  Mass.
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I have been given a pile of disks with ASCII files in SDF format.
(That is they're .SDF files)
My eventual goal is to transport this data into a Mac spreadsheet.
I have no problem with the hardware end of this, but can anyone tell
me, what the "%$&^*&" is SDF format? Is there any translator to
another native PCish format? (Tab, DBF, Comma, etc)

The fields in each record seem to be delimited with white space, but
not tabs. They are seperated with spaces. The fields are not of a
common length. It looks like the only way to extract it is to trash 
the first 3 chars, and grab everything up to the first " ", 
then search for a "/" since the end of the second field
and the beginning of the third are seperated by a "/" and then to index
backwards two space chars. That would put me at the beginning of the
second field...

Very messy.

Seen this before?

-Rich
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