Re: processing a .dbf file

[Don Mellen <donm@ONTKO.COM>]

Well, it's been a while since I played with .DBF files, but as I recall,
there was an initial value that told you the size of the header portion,
along with the # of records, etc.  Once you find these values (they're in
pre-set positions with pre-set sizes I belive), you should be able to
parse out the rest of the header info for field names, types, sizes, etc.
and use this to determine how to read the rest of the file.  Sorry for the
vagueness, but like I said, it's been awhile

HTH,
Don

On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Behnke, Greg M wrote:

> Hello,
> Has anyone ever had to process a Foxpro file with SQR?  How can I strip out
> the column heading junk at the beginning of the file?
> TIA
>
> Greg Behnke
>

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