hernan / XBase

Description

Package giving full access to Xbase (dBASE) files (dBASE III/IV). Hans Baveco, November 3, 2004. A rewrite of a Squeak goodie (XBase, version 1.00, published Feb 13, 1998 by andavino@tin.it). Ported to VisualWorks, back-ported to Squeak, and re-ported to Pharo

Examples

Open a dbf file with:

| dbf | 
"dbf := XBaseFile on: 'd:\DBF\allotments.dbf'. "
dbf := XBaseFile on: 'D:\etarcview\berisp\subcad.dbf'.

"or"

dbf := XBaseFile fromUser.
dbf inspect.
"Close it with:"
dbf close

Retrieve the contents of a dbf with:

XBaseFile recordsFromFile: 'd:\DBF\allotments.dbf'.

or

XBaseFile recordsFromUser.

The file does not need to be explicitly closed now. If you want to have the field(labels) as well:

XBaseFile recordsAndFieldsFromFile: 'd:\DBF\allotments.dbf'.

or

XBaseFile recordsAndFieldsFromUser.