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Are there any modules which can read .dbf files?

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Re: how to read dbf files in perl
by Nightblade (Beadle) on Jul 18, 2002 at 17:10 UTC
    DBD::XBase

    Module XBase provides access to XBase (dBase, Fox*) database files, namely dbf, dbt, fpt, ndx, ntx, mdx, idx and cdx.
    It provides nativ ePerl interface ($table->get_record, $table->update_record) to read and write the tables. The index support is alpha and read only at the moment.

    Module DBD::XBase is a DBI driver that uses the XBase module to work with the data, providing you with DBI compliant processing interface and SQL commands ($dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM TABLE")).
    As an argument to DBI->connect, specify "dbi:XBase:$dir", where $dir is the directory with the data files.

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Re: how to read dbf files in perl
by IlyaM (Parson) on Jul 18, 2002 at 17:10 UTC
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