At 02:33 PM 7/16/03, rikona wrote: >I have some old dbase files I may convert too. If you get >this to work, please post the result here. Thanks.
I have a perl script (from my *bsd system, but should work on Linux) that converts all dBase files in a directory to pgsql tables, you should be able to convert to mysql with different libraries. You'll need to install:
DBI - abstraction layer for database access from perl
DBD::XBase - access to DBF files via DBI - include a program to dump structure
DBD::Pg or DBI:MySQL - access to database from DBI
For Mysql, you may need to change DBF2PG subroutine for translating datatypes; otherwise, just rewrite the mainline for your own purposes.
The script is written to take a parameter - if this is a filename (without extension), then it will process just that file, otherwise, every file starting with those characters.
Frank
----- ----- ----- ----- ----- #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use File::Basename; # for basename() function use DBI; use DBD::XBase; use DBD::Pg;
my $base = shift;
my $dir = '/home/fbax/DBFfiles/' . $base;
my $dbf = DBI->connect("dbi:XBase:$dir", {RaiseError => 1} );
my $dbp = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=famtree", "famtree", "", {RaiseError => 1} );
while (my $fname = <$dir/$base*.DBF>) {
&DBF2PG ($dbf, $dbp, $fname, basename(substr($fname, 0, length($fname)-4)));
}
$dbf->disconnect; $dbp->disconnect;
sub DBF2PG { (my $dbf, my $dbp, my $fname, my $table) = @_; $table = lc("\"$table\""); print "$fname - $table\n"; open (PIPE, "dbfdump --info $fname |") or die "Can't open $fname: $!"; my $sql = "CREATE TABLE $table "; my $sep = "("; while( <PIPE> ) { chomp; if (/^[0-9]+\./) { # line starts with number. # print "$_\n"; my @stru = split; # stru contains field,type,len,dec $sql .= $sep.' "'.lc($stru[1]).'"'; if ($stru[2] eq 'D') { $sql .= " date"; } elsif ($stru[2] eq 'L') { $sql .= " boolean"; } elsif ($stru[2] eq 'M') { $sql .= " text"; } elsif ($stru[2] eq 'G') { $sql .= " text"; } elsif ($stru[2] eq 'C' && $stru[3] eq 1) { $sql .= " char"; } elsif ($stru[2] eq 'C') { $sql .= " varchar($stru[3])"; } elsif ($stru[2] eq 'N' && $stru[4] eq 0 && $stru[3] < 5) { $sql .= " int2"; } elsif ($stru[2] eq 'N' && $stru[4] eq 0 && $stru[3] < 10) { $sql .= " int4"; } elsif ($stru[2] eq 'N' && $stru[4] eq 0) { $sql .= " int8"; } elsif ($stru[2] eq 'N') { $sql .= " numeric($stru[3],$stru[4])"; } else { $sql .= " $stru[2].$stru[3].$stru[4]"; } $sep = ','; } } close (PIPE); $sql .= ' );'; $dbp->{RaiseError} = 0; $dbp->do( "DROP TABLE $table" ); $dbp->{RaiseError} = 1; $dbp->do( $sql );
my $sth = $dbf->prepare(" SELECT * FROM ".basename($fname) ); $sth->execute; while (my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array()) { $sql = "INSERT INTO $table VALUES "; $sep = "("; foreach my $fld (@row) { $sql .= "$sep ".$dbp->quote($fld); $sep = ","; } $sql .= ' );'; $dbp->do( $sql ); } $sth->finish; }
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