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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications Script to delete few rows from a file and then update header Post 302771351 by Yoda on Wednesday 20th of February 2013 11:45:39 AM
Old 02-20-2013
It works for me with the sample content you posted!

You can debug the code by putting print statements in it and see the values computed for each records processed.
 

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INDEXDUMP(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					      INDEXDUMP(1)

NAME
indexdump - Show the content of the index file FORMAT
indexdump [options] file [ tag ] where options are --debug output record separator (default newline) --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
indexdump rooms.cdx FACILITY indexdump --debug=14 --start=Dub rooms.cdx ROOMNAME DESCRIPTION
Indexdump 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. AUTHOR
(c) 1999--2000 Jan Pazdziora, adelton@fi.muni.cz, http://www.fi.muni.cz/~adelton/ at Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic SEE ALSO
perl(1); XBase::Index(3) perl v5.12.1 2010-07-05 INDEXDUMP(1)
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