Read binary data with ASP

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  13 years ago

  by martinh

  Martin Hald

  , Germany

  Joined 13 years ago

  Hello,

  I have a general question: I have to read a binary file and write the Data to a Database.

  My client provides data in 8-byte-blocks. Each block is definied as follows:
  
  v1: byte (just a number)
  v2: byte (just a number)
  v3: word (should contain a date- and/or time-value)
  
  
  
  v4: word (should contain a date- and/or time-value)
  v5: byte (just a number)
  v6: byte (just a number)
  
  

  Here are my questions:
  1. does this mean, that the variables v3 and v4 should be a 2-byte (HEX)- Value?
  2. How can I translate this two-byte Hex-Value to a date/time value?
  
  

  Anybody any idea?

  I am really interested in learning about this "binary"-reading of any file in ASP.

  P.S.: I already have written the script, that creates an sql-string from the HEX-code to be written to the database. However: the date- values I get, do not really make sense (e.g. Jan. 3rd, 2048)!
  
  

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