I'm hoping somebody out there can help me with this. I'm attempting to extract some barcode data from some .dat files. Its a B Tree file system with groups of three files .dat .ix. .dia. The company that wrote the software (a long time ago) say that the program is written in Pascal. I have no experience in reverse engineering but from what I read its most likely the only way to extract the data as the structure of the database is contained in the code of the program. I'm looking for advice on where to start.
I suppose the first thing you need to do is to see if the exe you've got was written with Delphi. You can check with this: http://cc.embarcadero.com/Item/15250
Then, to see if the exe that creates those .dat files were made with 'TurboPower B-Tree Filer', the I'd suggest you download and take a look at this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tpbtreefiler/
At this step, looking at these sources is needed to familiarize yourself with the class names used in 'TurboPower B-Tree Filer' to help determine if any of those classes were used in your exe.
Then, using 'XN Resource Editor' [search the Internet for this] or, probhably better, 'MiTeC Portable Executable Reader' [ http://www.mitec.cz/pe.html ], see if any class names are relevant.
If they are, then you're in luck --sort of. All you will need to do is to write an app using 'TurboPower B-Tree Filer' to import the data in your dat files to export or manipulate as you wish.
At that point, you might find this link useful.
TurboPower B-Tree Filer and Delphi XE2 - Anyone done it?
If, OTOH, none of the above applies; I fear the only option is to reverse engineer the exe you have.
I am a novice Go lang programmer,trying to learn Go lang features.I wanted to split a large csv file into multiple files in GO lang, each file containing the header.How do i do this? I have searched everywhere but couldnt get the right solution.Any help in this regard will be greatly appreciated.
Also please suggest me a good book for reference.
Thanking You
Depending on your shell fu this problem might be better suited for common shell utilities but you specifically mentioned go.
Let's think through the problem.
How big is this csv file? Are we talking 100 lines or is it 5G ?
If it's smallish I typically use this:
http://golang.org/pkg/io/ioutil/#ReadFile
However, this package also exists:
http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/csv/
Regardless - let's return to the abstraction of the problem. You have a header (which is the first line) and then the rest of the document.
So what we probably want to do (if ignoring csv for the moment) is to read in our file.
Then we want to split the file body by all the newlines in it.
You can use this to do so:
http://golang.org/pkg/strings/#Split
You didn't mention but do you know how many files you want to split by or would you rather split by the line count or byte count? What's the actual limitation here?
Generally it's not going to be file count but if we pretend it is we simply want to divide our line count by our expected file count to give lines/file.
Now we can take slices of the appropriate size and write the file back out via:
http://golang.org/pkg/io/ioutil/#WriteFile
A trick I use sometime to help think me threw these things is to write down our mission statement.
"I want to split a large csv file into multiple files in go"
Then I start breaking that up into pieces but take the divide/conquer approach - don't try to solve the entire problem in one go - just break it up to where you can think about it.
Also - make gratiutious use of pseudo-code until you can comfortably write the real code itself. Sometimes it helps to just write a short comment inline with how you think the code should flow and then get it down to the smallest portion that you can code and work from there.
By the way - many of the golang.org packages have example links where you can literally run in your browser the example code and cut/paste that to your own local environment.
Also, I know I'll catch some haters with this - but as for books - imo - you are going to learn a lot faster just by trying to get things working rather than reading. Action trumps passivity always. Don't be afraid to fail.
Here is a package that might help. You can set a necessary chunk size in bytes and a file will be split on an appropriate amount of chunks.
I want to get the difference of two dxf files and want to save it in third file. I want to set the limitation also. If my text shifts upto certain units , it shouldn't be shown in difference.
'DWG diff' partially does the job. It is not flexible. I cann't set limits and cann't save the diff. Does someone knows better software or Autolisp.
You don't mention whether you want to see a comprehensive graphical difference or if you are just looking for "text shifts". A DXF file is a text file so you can diff it with anything that diffs text. You could then check the diff (export a patch file, perhaps) for "text shits".
Its like there are mutliple pairs of files that needs to be compared. Then a result text file will display if there are pairs that have different contents, and will also display the differences.
Please help if there is existing code/application that can do this. Or if its possible in ruby? If yes, how and where should I start?
Thanks
Perhaps another tool may help you better - or is there a reason why you need ruby?
Some examples:
kdiff (free)
Beyond Compare (
diff (unix tool)
See also wikipedia for more diff tools
Try this http://markmcb.com/2008/11/04/ruby-on-rails-diff-text-to-html-ins-and-del/
Sadly, a project that I have been working on lately has a large amount of copy-and-paste code, even within single files. Are there any tools or techniques that can detect duplication or near-duplication within a single file? I have Beyond Compare 3 and it works well for comparing separate files, but I am at a loss for comparing single files.
Thanks in advance.
Edit:
Thanks for all the great tools! I'll definitely check them out.
This project is an ASP.NET/C# project, but I work with a variety of languages including Java; I'm interested in what tools are best (for any language) to remove duplication.
Check out Atomiq. It finds code that is duplicate that is prime for extracting to one location.
http://www.getatomiq.com/
If you're using Eclipse, you can use the copy paste detector (CPD) https://olex.openlogic.com/packages/cpd.
You don't say what language you are using, which is going to affect what tools you can use.
For Python there is CloneDigger. It also supports Java but I have not tried that. It can find code duplication both with a single file and between files, and gives you the result as a diff-like report in HTML.
See SD CloneDR, a tool for detecting copy-paste-edit code within and across multiple files. It detects exact copyies, copies that have been reformatted, and near-miss copies with different identifiers, literals, and even different seqeunces of statements.
The CloneDR handles many languages, including Java (1.4,1.5,1.6) and C# especially up to C#4.0. You can see sample clone detection reports at the website, also including one for C#.
Resharper does this automagically - it suggests when it thinks code should be extracted into a method, and will do the extraction for you
Check out PMD , once you have configured it (which is tad simple) you can run its copy paste detector to find duplicate code.
One with some Office skills can do following sequence in 1 minute:
use ordinary formatter to unify the code style, preferably without line wrapping
feed the code text into Microsoft Excel as a single column
search and replace all dual spaces with single one and do other replacements
sort column
At this point the keywords for duplicates will be already well detected. But to go further
add comparator formula to 2nd column and counter to 3rd
copy and paste values again, sort and see the most repetitive lines
There is an analysis tool, called Simian, which I haven't yet tried. Supposedly it can be run on any kind of text and point out duplicated items. It can be used via a command line interface.
Another option similar to those above, but with a different tool chain: https://www.npmjs.com/package/jscpd