How to connect to dbf files?

[moo mei lian]

Anybody have any idea?

[Karl Heinz Buchegger]

moo mei lian wrote:

Anybody have any idea?

If you mean: how to read a dbf file?

Well. Usually one starts with beeing lazy. Search the web
if somebody has already done this and is willing to share
his/her code.

If this turns up with nothing, you start with searching
(and finding) a description of the file format. Further
steps depend on what is written down in that specification
but the usual pattern is this:

* come up with a data structure that can hold the data
included in the file (or the parts of it you are
interested in)

* open file
read from file into your data structure
close file

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Karl Heinz Buchegger
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[Thomas Matthews]

moo mei lian wrote:

Anybody have any idea?

If you mean connecting to a database, you will need
to ask the folks in a newsgroup dedicated to the
database application. Many database applications
will have an API that lets programmers access the
database files.

The C++ language has no standard facilities for
database access or client-server support. You
will need some platform specific functionality.

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[Jarmo]

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Anybody have any idea?

http://dbforums.com/arch/125/2002/6/412429