splitting binary file into chunks

[erik hansen]

--- Kurt Kaufman <kkaufman at snet.net> wrote:
> Does anyone have a suggestion as to the most
> efficient way to:
> (1) Open a binary file (generally less than
> 100KB in size)
> 
> (2) look for specific byte-sequences in that
> file (using offset? -or is 
> that just for text?)
> 
> (3) split the data into sections based on
> location of the 
> byte-sequences in (2)
> 
> (4) decode the sections determined in (3) and
> place the (now text) data 
> into fields
> 
> Perhaps the decoding should be done at the
> outset (i.e. before (2)).

this "sounds" like a MIDI file.

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