What: tdbf Where: http://sqlitestudio.one.pl/tdbf/tdbf-0.3.tar.gz Description: [DBF] file reader/writer package. Dependencies: IncrTcl Licence: Tcl licence (BSD-like) Current version: 0.3 Updated: 08/2012 Author: Paweł Salawa (aka Googie). Contact: http://sqlitestudio.one.pl/index.rvt?act=contact
It depends on Itcl, but this is just for quick namespace creation bounded with handler command. It's easy to get rid of Itcl from the code, but I just prefer to use it.
package require tdbf 0.1
tdbf::dbf myDbf
myDbf open test1.dbf
puts "Columns: [myDbf getColumnNames]"
while {[set values [myDbf gets]] != ""} {
puts $values
}
myDbf closepackage require tdbf 0.1
tdbf::dbf myDbf
myDbf open test1.dbf
set columns [myDbf getColumnNames]
puts "Columns: $columns"
myDbf for value {
foreach c $columns {
puts -nonewline "$value($c) "
}
puts ""
}
myDbf closeThis script will create dbf file, add 2 columns, then add 3 new records and then replace second record with new value.
package require tdbf 0.1
tdbf::dbf myDbf
file delete -force test2.dbf
myDbf open test2.dbf
myDbf addColumn "col1" "N" 3 ;# (numeric type, length = 3 digits)
myDbf addColumn "col2" "C" 20 ;# (character/text type, 20 characters)
for {set i 0} {$i < 3} {incr i} {
myDbf insert [list $i "value $i"]
}
# Modify 2nd record
myDbf update 1 [list 5 "xyz"]
myDbf closeThe errorHandler code will be evaluated with literal error code appended (and optionally some other arguments). These errors are more like warnings. Dbf will still work but some limitations might be applied.
Possible values for reading file are:
| DBT_DOESNT_EXIST | When the .dbt file (memo table) doesn't exist or it's not readable, but the database type requires it to exists. It can be ignored, but in this case the referenced memo values will be returned as empty strings. |
Possible values for writing file are:
| DBT_READ_ONLY | When .dbt file has read-only permissions or you cannot create the new .dbt file because of permissions. |
| COLUMN_EXISTS | When trying to add column that already exist. Also column name is appended to error handler arguments. The addColumn will just skip this column. |
| RECORDS_EXIST | When trying to add any column while there are already some records in DBF. Also column name is appended to error handler arguments. The addColumn will skip this column. |
| COLUMN_NAME_TOO_LONG | When adding column with name longer than 10 characters (this is limited by DBF format). Column will still be added, but its name will be truncated to 10 characters. |
| VALUE_TOO_LONG | May happen for columns with type N and C (in future maybe in others too). It means that you tried to insert value to DBF field that is longer than defined field length. Remember, that length of type N (number) means length of string used to represent the number. |
| NO_RECORDS_WHILE_UPDATING | Tried to update (with [dbf update]) while there's not a single record in DBF. |
| dbf::julianDateToUnixTime value | Converts value read from "T" or "@" type into unixtime format, but only if it's possible (i.e. the time is after start of a year 1970). If the conversion is not possible, then "0" is returned (which is actually equal to the beginning of 1970.). |
| open file | Opens DBF file. If will be closed automatically at object destruction. It also opens DBT file (memo table) if it exists. If file doesn't exists, it creates new DBF file. If necessary (during writing data) might create also a DBT file. |
| read fd ?memoFd? | Reads DBF file from open channel. You can consider this method as a variant of [dbf open] accepting channels instead of file. Channel has to be readable (in any case) and writable (if you want to modify anything in file) and also switched to binary translation and non-blocking mode. Same requirements apply to memoFd. Channel for DBT (memo table) is optional. |
| close | Closes file that was open with [dbf open] or passed to [dbf read]. |
| addColumn name type ?length? ?precision? | Adds new column with given type (N, C, ...). Length is optional in most cases, except for types: N and C. Precision is always optional, but may be provided. Dbf cannot contain any records in order to add column. |
| insert values | Inserts new data record into dbf. Number of elements in 'values' has to be the same as number of columns, otherwise error will be raised. Values have to be in same format as returned from [gets]. It inserts record in place of first record marked as deleted or if there's no deleted record, then it appends record to the end of DBF file.|& |
| delete index | Marks record as deleted. Note that DBF records are not physically removed from file, they are just marked as deleted so they can be reused by [insert]. Use [vacuum] to force remove deleted records from file. Returns true on success or false on failure (index out of range). |
| update index values ?columnName? | Updates all values of record with given index, or single column of that row if columnName is provided. See [seek] for index details. Returns true on success or false on failure (index out of range). |
| getAllData | Returns all records in format {{row1field1Value row1field2Value ...} {row2field1Value row2field2Value} ...}. Excludes deleted records. |
| for arrName body | Iterates through all records and puts each record values into array named arrName with column names as keys. For each record the body is executed with arrName prepared. |
| seek index | Moves reading/writing pointer at given position. Index is record order number in dbf (excluding deleted records), which is in range from 0 to [getDataCount]-1. Can be end-N. Returns true on success, false on failure (index out of range). |
| gets | Returns record at current index and increments index. Remember to [seek] to proper record if you called any other method from this class before the [gets]. May return empty list if no data was available. |
| vacuum | Not implemented yet. |
| getVersion | Returns database file version in 2 hex characters format. |
| getVersionName | Returns human readable version description. |
| getLastModificationDate | Returns last modification date in [clock seconds] format. |
| getColumns | Returns list of columns, where each column is a Tcl dict with keys: name, type, length, precision, indexed. |
| getColumnNames | Returns list of column names. |
| getDataCount | Returns total number of records, excluding deleted records. |
| getRecordSize | Returns size of single record in bytes |
Use this datatype translation map to learn what value formats can you expect to be returned when reading DBF and use same formats to pass the data to DBF while writing DBF.
The flagship attribute is a boolean flag depended on DBF version. Some DBF versions assume this flag to be set to 1. By default it's 0.
| DBF type | DBF meaning | Max size | Tcl value format | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | characters | 254 characters | string | |
| N | number/numeric | 18 digits | number | It's an integer, float, double - a number in any means. Includes a minus sign (if necessary). |
| L | logical | boolean | Can be also an empty string (DBF allows boolean to be undefined) | |
| I, + | integer | 4 bytes | integer | The '+' type identifies "autoincrement" field. |
| D | date | 8 characters | string | A date in format: "YYYYMMDD". |
| M, G | text memo | infinite | string | The actual values are stored in separate file named with .dbt extension. |
| F | float | 20 digits | float | |
| B, P | binary memo | tbd. | binary data | The actual values are stored in separate file named .fpt extension |
| O | double | 8 bytes | double | |
| Y | currency | 8 bytes, 4 bits precision | string | Value in range from -922,337,203,685,477.5807 to +922,337,203,685,477.5807. The value can be so big, it doesn't fit in regular Tcl double type, so it's represented as a string. |
| V, X | varifield | varies | varies | Depending on the exact field length and database type (FlagShip attribute): |
| V, X | integer | 2 bytes | integer | The flagship is set and field size is 2 bytes. |
| V, X | date | 3 bytes | string | The flagship is not set and field size is 3 bytes. The value is treated the same way as for type "D". |
| V, X | integer | 4 bytes | integer | The flagship is not set and field size is 4 bytes. |
| V, X | double | 8 bytes | double | The flagship is set and field size is 8 bytes. |
| V, X | memo | infinite | string | The flagship is set and field size is 10. This is special kind of DBF memo, so should be a string, but this is not supported yet. |
| V, X | memo | infinite | string | Any other data size means this is also a special memo and the same thing as above applies here. |
| T, @ | timestamp | 01/01/4713BC to infinite | list of {date time}, which are integers. | The date is the number of days since 01/01/4713 BC. Time is: hours * 3600000 + minutes * 60000 + Seconds * 1000. If the date is at (or after) year 1970 you can use dbf::julianDateToUnixTime to convert the value into format usable for clock command. |