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DakineDel
DakineDel

Reputation: 11

Is it possible to identify the programming language used to create a data file based on structure of content?

I have a file that was intended to be read into a program for analysis. I don't have the program that was to be used to analyze it and don't know what language was used to create it. The file extension is .DAT. It appears to be a text file but the data format/structure makes it difficult to extract the useful information. Here is a snippet of the first 56 rows of the file. The file has 3,536 rows. If I know the language will I be able to transform the data to a format I can use?

{
"userName": "BOB       ",
"userAge": 25,
"userWeight": 185,
"userGender": "M",
"userHeight": "69",
"mID": "GB"
}
{
"workoutDate": {
    "Month": 8,
    "Day": 21,
    "Year": 2020
},
"distance": 3.9,
"finishTime": {
    "Hours": 17,
    "Minutes": 8
},
"pctAverageHeartRateInZone": 0.0,
"averageSpeed": 11.4,
"totalWorkoutTime": {
    "Hours": 0,
    "Minutes": 20
},
"averageWattsPerHour": 38.0,
"totalCalories": 55.0,
"avgHeartRate": 0.0,
"avgRpm": 46,
"avgLevel": 2
}
}
{
"workoutDate": {
    "Month": 8,
    "Day": 21,
    "Year": 2020
},
"distance": 0.2,
"finishTime": {
    "Hours": 16,
    "Minutes": 48
},
"pctAverageHeartRateInZone": 0.0,
"averageSpeed": 10.6,
"totalWorkoutTime": {
    "Hours": 0,
    "Minutes": 1
},
"averageWattsPerHour": 38.0,
"totalCalories": 4.0,
"avgHeartRate": 0.0,
"avgRpm": 36,
"avgLevel": 4
}
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 61

Answers (1)

joshmeranda
joshmeranda

Reputation: 3261

This file is in a format called Json, most languages will be able to parse json data relatively easily like python's json package or Java's Jackson library.

Json is not tied to any one language so you cannot determine what language was used to serialize the data into the file.

Upvotes: 1

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