Works fine on TITLE.DB, but misses the boat on other files.

diff --git a/bibliofile/parse_db.pl b/bibliofile/parse_db.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+
+# Parses Bibliofile files.
+# Usage: parse_db.pl TITLE.DB
+# Works fine on TITLE.DB, but misses the boat on other files; probably different block sizes or something.
+
+use strict;
+
+$/ = undef;
+
+my $startOfColumnTypes = 8;
+my $startOfRealData = 4096;
+my $blockSize = 4096;
+my $initialOffset = 6;
+my %dataTypes = (
+  'A' => 'Text',
+  'N' => 'Numeric',
+  'S' => 'Integer'
+);
+
+my $rowLength;
+my @fieldLengths;
+my @fieldNames;
+my @fieldTypes;
+
+my $db = $ARGV[0];
+my $dbd = $db . "D";
+
+open (DBD, $dbd);
+
+while (<DBD>) {
+
+  my $data = $_;
+
+  $rowLength = ord substr($data, 0, 1);
+  #print "Row length: $rowLength\n";
+
+  my $numColumns = ord substr($data, 2, 1);
+  #print "Columns:    $numColumns\n";
+
+  my $namedata = substr($data, $startOfColumnTypes + ($numColumns * 7) - 2);
+  @fieldNames = split(/\x00/, $namedata);
+ 
+  for (my $i = 0; $i < $numColumns; $i++) {
+    $fieldTypes[$i] = substr($data, ($i * 7) + $startOfColumnTypes, 1);
+    $fieldLengths[$i] = ord substr($data, ($i * 7) + $startOfColumnTypes + 1, 1);
+  }
+
+}
+
+close(DBD);
+
+print join("\t", @fieldNames) . "\n";
+
+open (DB, $db);
+
+my $blocks = 0;
+
+while (read DB, my $data, $blockSize) {
+  $blocks++;
+  next if ($blocks == 1);
+  my $maxRecords = int( $blockSize / $rowLength);
+  my $indexIndicator = ord substr($data, 7, 1);
+  next if ($indexIndicator == 0);
+
+#  for (my $i = 1; $i <= scalar(@fieldLengths); $i++) {
+#    print "Field $i has length $fieldLengths[$i-1]\n";
+#  }
+
+  for (my $r = 0; $r < $maxRecords; $r++) {
+
+    my $pos = 0;
+    my @field;
+
+    for (my $f = 0; $f < scalar(@fieldLengths); $f++) {
+      $field[$f] = substr($data, $initialOffset + ($r * $rowLength) + $pos, $fieldLengths[$f]);
+      if ($fieldTypes[$f] eq 'S') { $field[$f] = ord $field[$f]; }
+      $pos += $fieldLengths[$f];
+    }
+
+    if ($field[0] =~ m/[^\x00]/) {
+      print join("\t", @field) . "\n";
+    }
+  }
+
+}
+
+close(DB);