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)

shapelib                                          OCTOBER 2004                                       SHAPELIB(1)