Monday, December 24, 2012

WebApp to show DBASE (*.dbf) file information

The ESRI Shapefile format stores database attributes in DBASE DBF (*.dbf) file and shape geometries in another associated file (*.shp). Using the DBASE file structure documentation in http://www.dbf2002.com/dbf-file-format.html, I wrote a simple Javascript web app to show basic information about a DBF file, similar to the open source ShapeLib's dbfinfo executable.

 The web app can be run from this page http://dominoc925-pages.appspot.com/webapp/dbf_info/default.html.

  1. To use the web app, simply drag and drop one or more DBASE files (*.dbf) into the dashed box as shown in the screenshot below.

  2. Or click the button and choose one or more (*.dbf) files. .



    Basic information about the DBF file is displayed, including the number of records, the number of columns, column names and type.



Note: This will run only on Chrome and a development version of FireFox that uses Gecko 7 at the moment. 

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