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On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 07:52:21PM +0000, Adrian Midgley wrote:
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.
so ... the record separator is a newline (with a possible carriage return?) the field separator is a Ctrl-D So, it's no more than a csv file with a different separator? Unless the fields are fixed width, that is.
Basically I think I'll hammer away at it until I have the right digest coming out of it.
Do it with perl, you know you want to. What are you converting to?
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)?
If you do to .. http://search.cpan.org and search, in Documentation, for "dbase" or "foxpro" or "dbf", you'll find some. Steve -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.