Looking at the web site for this product, I found some relevant documentation, which included this (on a page under "Porting" about exporting the data):
• Export XML Gradebook. This format allows you to export virtually all student data from one or more classes in an XML format...

I didn't see any mention of XML on the page about importing data, but maybe that's not an issue for you (or maybe there are fairly easy ways to work around this).

In any case, I'd highly recommend XML as the way to go if you want to use perl on such data. Perl has an assortment of very good modules for doing useful things with XML, and you just won't need to worry very much that you might do the wrong thing with the data. (Well, it's always easy to make mistakes, but they're much easier to spot and fix when the input is XML, compared to some obscure application-specific file format.)

Who knows what sort of weird sh*t they might be doing with their proprietary file structure? (managing fonts, colors, user preferences, and all manner of other stuff that is probably irrelevant for what you want to do). Why bother with all that? (And if, like most designers of app-specific file formats, they've opted to mix ASCII and binary data, I wouldn't want to go there, if I were you.)

In reply to Re: Easy Grade Pro file parsing by graff
in thread Easy Grade Pro file parsing by ruzam

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