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Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'03)   p. 195
Parsing Without a Grammar: Making Sense of Unknown File Formats
Levon Lloyd, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Steven Skiena, State University of New York at Stony Brook

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Abstract
The thousands of specialized structured file formats in use today present a substantial barrier to freely exchanging information between applications programs. We consider the problem of deducing such basic features as the whitespace characters, bracketing delimiter symbols, and self-delimiter characters of a given file format from one or more example files. We demonstrate that for sufficiently large example files, we can typically identify the basic features of interest.
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Citation:  Levon Lloyd, Steven Skiena, "Parsing Without a Grammar: Making Sense of Unknown File Formats," icdm, p. 195,  Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'03),  2003