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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting zipping functionality (tar) not working as expected Post 302597818 by frappa on Sunday 12th of February 2012 10:13:33 AM
Old 02-12-2012
may you please post the content of the file referenced by $index?
 

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INDEX_DUMP(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					    INDEX_DUMP(1p)

NAME
index_dump - Show the content of the index file FORMAT
index_dump [options] file [ tag ] where options are --debug set debug level --type specifies the num/date/char type of the index --start defines the value to start dump from --n prints also the total number of records in the file SYNOPSIS
index_dump rooms.cdx FACILITY index_dump --debug=14 --start=Dub rooms.cdx ROOMNAME DESCRIPTION
Index_dump prints to standard output the content of the index file. The type of the index is one of those supported by the XBase::Index Perl module (cdx, idx, ntx, ndx, mdx). The output contains the index key and the value, which is the record number in the correcponding dbf file. For mulitag index files (like cdx), you need to specify the tag name to get the actual data. AVAILABLE FROM
http://www.adelton.com/perl/DBD-XBase/ AUTHOR
(c) 1999--2011 Jan Pazdziora. SEE ALSO
perl(1); XBase::Index(3pm); dbf_dump(1p) perl v5.12.4 2011-08-31 INDEX_DUMP(1p)
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