NAME

       XBase::SDBM - SDBM index support for dbf

DESCRIPTION

       When developing the XBase.pm/DBD::XBase module, I was trying to support as many existing
       variants of file formats as possible. The module thus accepts wide range of dbf files and
       their versions from various producers. But with index files, the task is much, much
       harder. First, there is little or no documentation of index files formats, so the
       development is based on reverse engineering.

       None if the index formats support is finalized. That made it hard to integrate them into
       one consistent API. That is why I decided to write my own index support, and as I wanted
       to avoid inventing yet another way of storing records in pages and similar things, I used
       SDBM. It comes with Perl, so you already have it, and it's proven and it works.

       Now, SDBM is a module that aims at other task than to do supporting indexes for a dbf. But
       equality tests are fast with it and I have creted a structure in each index file to enable
       "walk" though the index file.

VERSION

       1.02

AVAILABLE FROM

       http://www.adelton.com/perl/DBD-XBase/

AUTHOR

       (c) 2001--2011 Jan Pazdziora.

       All rights reserved. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
       it under the same terms as Perl itself.