>Hello Mark, well I am not an oracle expert, but the files that we get via FTP are a .dmp and .log file. They are given to the Oracle people to get into the database. I tried to read the .dmp file (fread), but found it contained special characters and not really a delimited file. What I saw in the .dmp from the fread what statements that resemble SQL Create Table and Insert.
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>I was hoping to just rread the .dmp, but I dont think I can do it.

That is a file created by the EXPort utility. You are correct in that you will not be able to get the data out of that file directly, at least not using any conventional methods. The best you could do is low level file functions, but that would be a real PITA trying to figure out where table definitions end, data starts, fields begin and end, etc.