Re: binary field export problem

Never mind - I think I'm just reading the data incorrectly. I have an
idea of how to do it now.

On 3/7/06, Shanon Mulley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using mdbtools to pull information out of a binary field (adobe
> photo album 2.0). In this binary field, each 4 bytes represents an
> integer, so when I use the mdb tools to dump the data out of this
> field, I can convert the hexademical to decmial, to give me the number
> I want.
>
> What it is giving me is something like this:
>
> 1900000033000000320000002600000027000000
>
> Every 8 characters represents on value (an integer). My problem is,
> that mdbtools seems to right fill each value with zeros. So, I can
> never be quite sure if the zeros are padding, or if they are part of
> the value. For example, from above, is the value "19", with 6 zeros
> padding it, or is it "190", with 5 zeros padding it?
>
> Is there some way of making the padding happening the other way around
> (left filling with zeros), so I'll know exactly where the padding
> starts and the value ends?
>
> Or am I missing something here?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>


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