How do you tell what language a database is written in. For example, the database I am dealing with has a main folder with tables with the extension .dat no data in this table though. But there is a secondary folder with files containing the actual data with extensions of .dat and .idx. These files do not represent a table layout at all. What I would like to do is create .idx file and .dat file with my own data that I asuume would populate the actual table when the call is made to open the database I need. hmm does that make sense at all? Any help determining what code language I am deeling with would be great.
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> How do you tell what language a database is written in.
You can't.
Any language which is capable of writing any byte value to a file would be capable of creating those files.
What you need to do is figure out what all those bytes mean (this is called reverse engineering), so that you can create a compatible application which creates files in the same format.
Some people make this easy, by actually publishing details of file formats, so other people like yourself can easily create files as well.
If you're not in that position, then its down to a lot of trial and error.
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You can't.
Any language which is capable of writing any byte value to a file would be capable of creating those files.
What you need to do is figure out what all those bytes mean (this is called reverse engineering), so that you can create a compatible application which creates files in the same format.
Some people make this easy, by actually publishing details of file formats, so other people like yourself can easily create files as well.
If you're not in that position, then its down to a lot of trial and error.
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But you know which application created those files in the first place right?
Otherwise, where did you get those files?
Opening the files is easy, you just do
Instead of going to the trouble of working out what all the database files are, how about creating your C program to generate files in a format which your database can import.
A good example is the CSV format file, which many spreadsheet and database applications can read, and its all text, so its also easy to generate (and check).
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Otherwise, where did you get those files?
Opening the files is easy, you just do
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FILE *fp = fopen( "file.idx", "rb" );Instead of going to the trouble of working out what all the database files are, how about creating your C program to generate files in a format which your database can import.
A good example is the CSV format file, which many spreadsheet and database applications can read, and its all text, so its also easy to generate (and check).
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