I'm writing an importer for a CMS to import tags from various platforms/sources. I want to be able to import tags from WordPress, Moveable Type, Blogger; basically all of the big boys. Are there any generic, standard tag export formats? ...
I'm doing some processing on some very large video files (often up to 16MP), and I need a way to store these videos in a format that allows seeking to specific frames (rather than to times, like ffmpeg). I was planning on just rolling my own format that concatenates all of the individually zlib compressed frames together, and then append...
Does anyone know what is the format of the digital magazine content created by InDesign? And how we can render it in iPad? The digital content for the famous Time iPad mag is created using InDesign. Any information or head start here is well appriciated. Thanks AJ ...
Android NinePatch images seem to be standard .png files with extra information. Is there a spec for the format anywhere, as I'd like to be able to implement this on other platforms? ...
Hi all, I have lot of executable that I have compiled (long time back) for many of which I don't have sourcecode now. But when I compiled them I didn't put any icons for them, so they all look like same dull, bald default icon. So my questions are, (1) is it possible for me to write a software that can change the resources section of ...
I'm trying to detect console application from the list of the executables files installed on my computer. How to implement it? Every application has a "subsystem" (windows application, console application or library; specified to the linker as option, I think). How to detect it using only the executable file? Are there alternative met...
Scenario: I'm working on a rails app that will take data entry in the form of uploaded text-based files. I need to parse these files before importing the data. I can choose the file type uploaded to the app; the software (Microsoft Access) used by those uploading has several export options regarding file type. While it may be insignific...
I'm writing an application that manages todo lists. Unlike 'traditional' todo list applications I want users to have these todo list files sit on their filesystem and be visible instead of being magically hidden by the app. I want users to be able to email todo lists to each other and so on. In addition, I later intend to create a web ap...
I have the following simple code: ofstream output("test"); output << 'a'; When I do an octal dump of the file, I get this: 0000000 000141 0000001 I can see that 000141 (in base 8) is 8 bits wide and 0000001 is probably EOF. What is the first byte of all 0's and why is it there? I know it is null is ascii but what is its purpose? ...
Hello, I'm currently looking for a way to add data to an already compiled ELF executable, i.e. embedding a file into the executable without recompiling it. I could easily do that by using cat myexe mydata > myexe_with_mydata, but I couldn't access the data from the executable because I don't know the size of the original executable. D...
I am looking for some routines that will read and parse CSV files. I have written some code to do this, but the data files I download are not always evenly formatted for data extraction. I generally have to clean up the file manually before I can run my parser. ...
I have an nascent iPad application, which stores "documents" internally on the device in the file system as a series of distinct files in a folder. I'd like to try incorporating an import/export function through iTunes, using the features for OS 3.2 for this. I want to put all the document pieces that I keep internally into one containe...
Hi, I've googled and googled, but found nothing. (Where) can I find a detailed, low-level spec for the Perfmon binary .blg file format? Or even better, has anyone written a low level, open source library (preferably in C, but any language would do) for parsing .blg files? Thanks, Andreas ...
I need to come up with a file format for new application I am writing. This file will need to hold a bunch other text files which are mostly text but can be other formats as well. Naturally, a compressed tar file seems to fit the bill. The problem is that I want to be able to retrieve some data from the file very quickly and getting just...
I'm making a game in Java, and I need a good file format to store the player's saved data. Any suggestions? Feel free to give examples in code if you want. EDIT: I don't want it human-readable and this is a server-client game, so the saved data will be on the server's machine. Also, I don't want to use Serialization. ...
Does anyone know what the format of the OpenOffice dictionary files are? As far as I can see there is one word per line, and some flags that presumably tells me something about the word. Here's a couple of lines from the english dictionary as an example: absoluteness/S absorbency/SM abstract/ShTVDPiGY absurdness/S And from the Norweg...
Hello, What is the difference between File Formats and Container Formats? Thank You, ...
Looking for parsers (in C#) for a bunch of formats. (PHP, ASP, some XML based formats, HTML,...pretty much anything I can get my hands on.) So far we have: HTML: * Majestic-12 * Html Agility Pack I am having a hard time believing that these are the only free parsers for c# in existence, so I am adding a bounty to the question. For...
There are dozens of network protocols and file formats (WAV, TCP, BMP, etc. etc.) Is there a solution available to create an abstraction layer between the implementation of a protocol and the code that uses the resulting data? Take a WAV file. A software component could contain logic to identify chucks and parse them into classes. The ...
I half imagine there being these great .docs in the sky... but another part of me doubts that my documents are even being stored in anything we'd traditionally call a "file." Does Google have its own document format? I feel like it must. Some branch of some existing format like ODF, maybe? Any idea what it's like, what's special about it...