indexdump(1) [suse man page]

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)

XBase::SDBM(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					    XBase::SDBM(3)

NAME

       XBase::SDBM - SDBM index support for dbf

DESCRIPTION

       When developing the XBase.pm/DBD::XBase module, I was trying to support as many existing variants of file formats as possible. The module
       thus accepts wide range of dbf files and their versions from various producers. But with index files, the task is much, much harder. First,
       there is little or no documentation of index files formats, so the development is based on reverse engineering.

       None if the index formats support is finalized. That made it hard to integrate them into one consistent API. That is why I decided to write
       my own index support, and as I wanted to avoid inventing yet another way of storing records in pages and similar things, I used SDBM. It
       comes with Perl, so you already have it, and it's proven and it works.

       Now, SDBM is a module that aims at other task than to do supporting indexes for a dbf. But equality tests are fast with it and I have
       creted a structure in each index file to enable "walk" though the index file.

VERSION

       0.200

AUTHOR

       (c) 2001 Jan Pazdziora, adelton@fi.muni.cz, http://www.fi.muni.cz/~adelton/ at Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech
       Republic

       All rights reserved. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.12.1							    2001-08-19							    XBase::SDBM(3)