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On Monday 13 May 2002 12:59, you wrote:
Sounds liek you jsut want to do it all in perl.
maybe
Care to pose question?
File is a text file with some Ctrl D characters that appear as separators in the middle of lines that have a textual qualifier appended to the rubric of a Read Code (diagnostic or event code from the national thesaurus). In DOS they show as diamonds. There are also some IBM box-drawing characters. Apart from that it seems to be pure text. Basically I think I'll hammer away at it until I have the right digest coming out of it. What is a good way to get data directly out of a .dbf file? Is it easier to find a dbview module or just read chunks the lenght of the sum of the field lengths, starting after the header (which is 150 bytes i think)? -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.