Death Panel

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 10, 2011 at 3:33pm

There seem to be proper file format specs on line for this:

 

http://www.dbase.com/knowledgebase/int/db7_file_fmt.htm

http://www.clicketyclick.dk/databases/xbase/format/dbf.html

http://www.clicketyclick.dk/databases/xbase/format/index.html

 

but unless you can find some sort of library it still looks like a fair amount of (very boring I might add) work.

 

Is that display error on one of your own components or one of mine? Not a very helpful error message is it?

 

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Chris Wilkins on March 10, 2011 at 3:57pm

The error came out of my component. I tried using one that parses CSV files, to do the same with DBF. Nope. Maybe the error had to do with the really long lengths of text that was being passed into the panel?

 

For the DBF files - yes it would be a fair amount and boring too. And I've not read files that way in a very long time. But I need to try. Any advice on how to do that?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 10, 2011 at 5:40pm

Get a streamreader attached to the file and read in the bytes in appropriate chunks. 

 

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Chris Wilkins on March 10, 2011 at 6:13pm

thanks!

Permalink Reply by taz on March 10, 2011 at 4:58pm

I thought this was a discussion about US health care...

Permalink Reply by Chris Wilkins on March 10, 2011 at 5:13pm

No, I don't talk politics. Unless you enjoy the late George Carlin.