Do you happen to know the format? Perl can unpack() a binary file rather easily, but you'd need to know the structure of the file first. BSD comes with a utility called hexdump that might help too - not sure if this is stock with whatever Linux distro you're using, but I'm sure there's plenty of similar utils on freshmeat. Since you probably have a good idea what the data should look like, you might be able to make due with hexdump. Find a record for one of the computer-geeks so you have a good idea of what their score should have been, and it'll be easier to pick out of the noise. Once you know about where the score is in relation to the name, you should be able to go through it record by record. On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Tim Wilson wrote: > On Friday 06 June 2003 07:39, Adam Maloney wrote: > > strings <filename>? > > That pulls out the student names, id numbers and such, but I don't see any of > the scores in there. > > -Tim > > -- > Tim Wilson > Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA > Science teacher, Linux fan, Zope developer, Grad. student, Daddy > mailto:wilson at visi.com | http://qwerk.org/ | public key: 0x8C0F8813 > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list