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Any Suggestions for Opening a .asc (ASCII) file when Notepad doesn't do the trick?

I was attempting to open a raw data file (.asc) format with Notepad and am getting gibberish like the following:

1A120090900007 01Piedmont Federal Savings Bank 16 W 3rd St
00 02 1F120090900007 CCR134 +0000000000CCR180

Now, I tried searching around as to what this formatting might be but haven't been able to find anything (thought it might be ActionScript but I doubt it).

Does anyone recognize this formatting or know why it may not be opening properly?

Solution

  • If that's a raw data file, as you suggested, that might be correct. That's probably a fixed-width data format of some type, although you'd have to ask the creators what the format was.

    It looks like 20090900007 probably represents a date/time, followed by an address and other domain-specific data.