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C_ISAM file parsing with ruby or perl

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?

+4  A: 

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?

/I3az/

draegtun  2009-07-31 08:47:48
As I see, CIsam/Isam require some external library with isam.h.
Alexandr Ciornii  2009-07-31 20:54:35
that's exactly my problem. you need an Informix/IBM non-free lib. I know how to use search.cpan.org as well :-)
VP  2009-08-02 08:55:43
Ah but u don't mention that you tried and/or looked at CIsam or Isam modules on CPAN in your question so we're none the wiser :(
draegtun  2009-08-02 11:38:13

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