comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive » Re: Importing DBF files?

Home » Public Forums » archive » Re: Importing DBF files?

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: Importing DBF files? [message #40819 is a reply to message #40808]

Thu, 02 September 2004 13:29

Mark Hadfield
Messages: 783
Registered: May 1995

Senior Member

Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> Is there any way to import DBF files generated from either Arc or some DBF
> program?

Initial response:

"What's a DBF file?"

After a little more digging:

IDL does read and write shapefiles, and there's a mention of DBF files
there. I don't know if this is relevant, but perhaps you do?

The following is from documentation for IDLffShape::Open...

DBF_ONLY
If this keyword is set to a positive value, only the
underlying dBASE table (.dbf) component of the shapefile
is opened. All entity related files are left closed. Two
values to this keyword are accepted: 1 - Open an existing
.dbf file, > 1 - Create a new .dbf file

The UPDATE keyword is required to open the .dbf file for
updating.

--
Mark Hadfield "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Re: Importing DBF files? By: jnettle1 on Fri, 03 September 2004 07:51
		Re: Importing DBF files? By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 02 September 2004 13:29

Previous Topic:	Re: IDL with XP crashes. Is it normal???
Next Topic:	Re: Any idea to read MSU and HIRS/2

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Sat Oct 11 12:15:37 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.63945 seconds