Re^2: (De)-Serializing from/to VB (generic bytes)

[belg4mit]

Aye, see Re^2: (De)-Serializing from/to VB.

I already know what type of file it is … a Jet database. But for some unknowable reason, rather than inserting features of an object as records in another table, features of an object are stored as a serialized BLOB in the object table.

[soonix]

If it's really a Jet database and you're on Windows, you might prefer to access it via DBI and DBD::ADO or ODBC?
Don't know how to do this from Linux or other, however...

[Anonymous Monk]

I have, that was how I discovered that they're storing serialized, record-based data in a database :-P

[hotchiwawa]

Maybe I'm wrong but if you know the encoding and let's say that the data are not crypted, normally when translating the bytes in characters you should get the text serialized with the tags... if the structure is fixed, it will be easy but if tags are removed from time to time (optional fields), this could be more difficult to get the full structure.