Hi Monks.
I would like to get in contact with your wisdom.
My Problem is:
I would like to read out a DBF-file with Perl. So I decide to install DBI and DBD::XBase.
I wonder what values I get on this way in comparison to 'Simple DBF Browser'

DBI, DBD::XBase Simple DBF Browser
3.64659971882507e-317 2012
3.77611606348848e-317 2013
3.90563240815189e-317 2014
4.0351487528153e-317 2015
4.1646650974787e-317 2016
4.29418144214211e-317 2017

I 'prefer' the values (years) 'Simple DBF Browser' returns because on a third way I get the same values.

My OS is Windows XP and I use Strawberry Perl 5.16.

I search the web for the problem, but found no hint.
Hope you can help me on!
Any hint will be great.

Thanks in advance, Holger

use DBI;

my $dbf_dir = 'C:/Data/MoSes_Automatisierung/ws_test_orig/output/mcev/
+EEV12Q2/EEV_batchrun_1/';
my $tbl = 'EEV_DET_BATCHRUN_1~MAIN.DBF';
my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:XBase:".$dbf_dir) or die $DBI::errstr;
#
{
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select CAL_YEAR from $tbl") or die $dbh->
+errstr();
    $sth->execute() or die $sth->errstr();

    while (my @DATA = $sth->fetchrow_array()) {
        print join(',', @DATA), "\n";
    }
    $sth->finish();
}
$dbh->disconnect();

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