My concern is the inability to call the method "last_record" on 2 of 12 files.

As the error message says ("Can't call method "last_record" on an undefined value"), the method can't be called because what you expect to be an object ($database) is undefined: 

  my $database = new XBase $database_file;
  my $records = $database->last_record() + 1;

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This is most likely because the .dbf file could not be opened/read/parsed, so the constructor fails and returns undef instead of an object to indicate the error.

In other words, check for this case ($database being undefined), and only continue with the rest of the routine if things are ok.

And in case you can't simply skip those 2 files, I'm afraid there's more trouble ahead, i.e. figuring out the underlying problem of why the XBase constructor is failing...

In reply to Re^3: Can't retrieve last_record by almut
in thread Can't retrieve last_record by AIM Systems

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