SHAPELIB(1)

NAME

dbfadd - add a row to an xBase DBF file

SYNOPSIS

dbfadd filename fieldvalues...

DESCRIPTION

Adds a row to the DBF file named by filename with column values given by the fieldvalues options that follow. A NULL value is denoted by an empty argument.

EXIT STATUS

0 Successful program execution.

1 Missing filename or fieldvalues arguments.

2 Failed to open filename for reading and appending.

3 Too few values in fieldvalues...

DIAGNOSTICS

The following diagnostics may be issued on stdout:

DBFOpen(filename,"rb+") failed.

Got count1 fields, but require count2

AUTHORS

Frank Warmerdam (warmerdam@pobox.com) is the maintainer of the shapelib shapefile library. Joonas Pihlaja (jpihlaja@cc.helsinki.fi) wrote this man page.

BUGS

Field values that are too large to fit in a field are silently truncated from the right. Numeric field values that can't be parsed by atof(3) get undefined values.

SEE ALSO

dbfcreate(1), dbfdump(1), dbf_dump(1), shpadd(1), shpcreate(1), shpdump(1), shprewind(1)
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