Re: Using Perl DBI, DBD package, and SQL to open an .odb file?

[Jeff Zucker]

Willis, Frank A wrote:
Is there any way to use the Perl DBI and SQL to open an .odb file? 

This lists a number of possibilities:
   http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=odb&Submit3=Go%21
The most likely one is OpenOffice.Org Database.  If so, I'd check their 
site to find the format, it may be some flavor of XML.  Or, I think OO.O 
has ways to export their format directly to CSV.  If it does turn out to 
be OpenOffice, I'd be interested to hear what you find out.

I am trying to open the .odb file, read it, and parse
it out to a .csv file.
The second part of that can be done by DBD::CSV or Text::CSV_XS if 
there's no direct CSV export from whatever program produced the original 
file.

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Jeff