README.md

go-dbf

A pure Go library for reading and writing dBase/xBase database files

This project is a part of go-shp library. go-shp is a pure Go implementation of Esri Shapefile format.

You can incorporate the library into your local workspace with the following 'go get' command:

go get github.com/LindsayBradford/go-dbf

Code needing to call into the library needs to include the following import statement:

import (
  "github.com/LindsayBradford/go-dbf"
)

Here is a very simple snippet of example 'load' code to get you going:

  dbfTable, err := godbf.NewFromFile("exampleFile.dbf", "UTF8")

  exampleList := make(ExampleList, dbfTable.NumberOfRecords())

  for i := 0; i < dbfTable.NumberOfRecords(); i++ {
    exampleList[i] = new(ExampleListEntry)

    exampleList[i].someColumnId, err = dbfTable.FieldValueByName(i, "SOME_COLUMN_ID")
  }

Further examples can be found by browsing the library's test suite.

Projects using godbf

dbfcsv - A command line utility for dbf/csv conversion