Read Visual Foxpro databases

Visual Foxpro database files can be read using this library.

Getting started

This is a Node.js library, with no dependencies. vfp-dbf-reader.js is all you will need to integrate with your application.

This library is available at npm at https://www.npmjs.com/package/vfp-dbf-reader.siara.cc and can be included in your Javascript projects with npm i vfp-dbf-reader.siara.cc. See below on how to include it in your code.

Running Unit tests (using Jest)

To run unit tests, clone this repo and issue following commands, assuming npm is installed:

npm update
npm run test

Using it in your application

To compress and decompress strings in your application, import vfp-dbf-reader.js:

var VfpDbfReader = require("./vfp-dbf-reader.js");
var inst = new VfpDbfReader("filename.dbf");
console.log(inst.fieldCount); // has number of fields in the table + 1
console.log(inst.fields); // array of fields
var next_rec = inst.next();
while (next_rec != null) {
    console.log(next_rec);
    next_rec = inst.next();
}
inst.close();

Just next() function is used repeatedly to retrieve records from the table as shown above. This library does not recognize indexes.

Issues

In case of any issues, please email the Author (Arundale Ramanathan) at [email protected] or create GitHub issue.