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  1. POHow to read the PL/SQL code in an Oracle Forms .FMT file?
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    copied!<p>Oracle Forms10g provides a tool to convert the Oracle Forms modules, from the binary format (.FMB) that Oracle Forms Builder works with, to text format (.FMT).</p> <p>For example, if you create a module called <em>mymodule.fmb</em> with Oracle Forms Builder, and then invoke</p> <pre><code>frmcmp module=mymodule.fmb script=yes batch=yes logon=no </code></pre> <p>from the command line, the Oracle Forms Convert utility will create a file named <em>mymodule.fmt</em> from the file <em>mymodule.fmb</em>. This text file is supposed to be "readable" by humans, except for the PL/SQL code of triggers and program units, which is codified.</p> <p>For example, this is a snippet of a .FMT file with a chunk of codified PL/SQL code</p> <pre><code>DEFINE F50P BEGIN PP = 10 PI = 3 PN = 464 PL = 1138 PV = (BLONG) &lt;&lt;" 00000049 00800000 00440000 00000000 00000031 0000000d 00000002 a0011519 00002420 0000045e 001f0000 00165030 5f32335f 4f43545f 32303038 31365f33 375f3039 00000006 42454749 4e0a0000 0042676f 5f626c6f 636b2820 27504149 53455327 20293b0a 69662066 6f726d5f 73756363 65737320 7468656e 0a096578 65637574 655f7175 6572793b 0a656e64 2069663b 00000005 0a454e44 3b000000 1d574845 4e2d4e45 572d464f 524d2d49 4e535441 4e434520 28466f72 6d290000 </code></pre> <p>Have you ever tried to decode this kind of files, to be able to extract the PL/SQL code of a form ?</p> <p>It would be very useful to be able to search a string in the PL/SQL code of a lot of .FMT files, instead of using Oracle Forms Builder to manually open each of the corresponding .FMB files, and search the string in each one of them.</p> <p>Thanks!</p>
 

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