Re: [MacPerl] Are thery any Xbase modules or tools for MacPerl

[Jonathan Eunice <jonathan@illuminata.com>]

Josh Kuperman (josh@racing.saratoga.ny.us) wrote:

>I have a lot of data in Xbase format. I like the things I can do with
>FoxPro (an old version) and Excel. I can write FoxPro code and access it
>through AppleScript (sort of). Excel is also very AppleScriptable. But some
>things would be very easy if I could access Xbase tables directly from
>MacPerl.  I've seen some references to dbm which is apparently something
>else. I'm not wedded to Xbase, as long as the alternatives run on a Mac and
>are freely available with source code.
>
>Is there Xbase support in Perl or MacPerl? Has anyone used MacPerl to
>manipulate FoxPro or Excel to get at .dbf files?

I have no personal experience with Xbase access, but I know there are 
Xbase
modules.  A quick browse of http://reference.perl.com/query.cgi?database
shows two options, Xbase and DBD::Xbase, that may be just what you need.

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