How in the world do you parse out the information on these .CL2 files? They are a mess. Does anyone have something simple to convert it into something usable?
Officially, the CL2 file format is a proprietary file format used by Hy-Tek software. They refuse to release the official specification (which IMHO, is rather silly).
It is very close to the SDIF (standard data interchange format) used by USA Swimming, which is a published specification. USMS posts a copy of the specification here:
www.usms.org/.../sdifv3f.txt
If you look through the SDIF format, parsing the CL2 format isn't that difficult.
Generating valid CL2 data is a little harder, because it involves a checksum for each line, which I just haven't bothered to figure out the algorithm for.
-Rick
