>>There's no guarantee that there'll be a one-to-one correspondence between the >>content of the binary file and the content of the text you pull out.
Yes, I figure it has to do with the way binary files like Excel are laid out. If it were straight as I supposed I should be able to do the conversion like I tried. My question was just out of curiosity why the readbinary-translateToHex-replaceHex-writeBinary method didn't work. I'll look in to the POI utility later. Thanks, Marc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336662 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
