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thebestpatrick / nda-extractor

Extracts data from Neware binary files (.nda)
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Open eweiss369 opened 5 years ago

eweiss369 commented 5 years ago

Hello thebestpatrick,

I am working with Neware .nda files and came across this repository. It is exactly what I have been looking for, however for my project, we are interested in some data that the bin2csv function process_nda does not grab from the .nda file. I was wondering if you could help me with this problem, as I am a bit new to Python programming. Thanks!

thebestpatrick commented 5 years ago

Hi eweiss, it has been a while since I was actively using this script and I no longer work at the facility where I had full access to .nda files.

That said, I'm very happy to help you out with adapting this to your usage. There was a lot of data that is in those files that I ignored because it was irrelevant to our testing purposes. If you could provide the .nda files you are working from and the sort of data you are looking for, I could start poking around.

Otherwise I can give you some better notes on what parts of the program do what and how I am extracting data to see if that helps you get the desired information out.

eweiss369 commented 5 years ago

thebestpatrick:

Thank you for responding! I was mainly confused with how you were parsing the binary data but I ended up going a round-about way using pattern recognition in the data that the program does provide to piece together the data that I needed. So, this issue is solved on my end.

Your code came in very handy and was critical to my project, so thank you for that. If I have any other questions, I will let you know!

eweiss369 commented 5 years ago

Hello thebestpatrick,

Our .nda files contain a property in them called the Batch No. which we would like to extract from the .nda file, but I am unsure of how/where to look in the binary parsing (like you did for the rest of the data extraction). Are you able to help me with this? Do you have a personal email address I can send you the .nda and .xls files on so you can see what I'm talking about? Thanks.

thebestpatrick commented 5 years ago

Hi, sorry about the delay, I was out on vacation. I'd be happy to help you out on this, though I'm not sure if it is still an open issue for you because of the delay. If you're still interested, you can drop files here or my email is patrickingham at cihenterprises dot com.

eweiss369 commented 5 years ago

Hello,

I sent you an email.