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

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  •  05-10-2019
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Question

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?

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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.

OTHER TIPS

That could be someone's bank account number and routing number on the second line.

This is probably just some form data, and not intended to be human readable.

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