DBFILEVALIDATE(1)

💖 dbfilevalidate 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the DBFILEVALIDATE(1) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation — this is the manual for dbfilevalidate, and it's literally here to make your source input pass the “is this a well-formed Fsdb file?” vibe check. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

dbfilevalidate — insure the source input is a well-formed Fsdb file. Yes, “insure” is the original wording, bestie — we keep the details exact. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dbfilevalidate [-vc]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Validates the input file to make sure it is a well-formed fsdb file. If the file is well-formed, it outputs the whole file and exits with a good exit code. Slay.

For invalid files? It exits with an error exit code and embedded error messages in the stream as comments with *** in them. 💀

Currently this program checks for rows with missing or extra columns. That's the whole check right now — no cap.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -v, --errors-only — output only broken lines, not the whole thing. Lowkey perfect when you just want the mess.
• -c, --correct — correct errors, if possible. Pad out rows with the empty value; truncate rows with extra values. If errors can be corrected the program exits with a good return code. Iconic.
• -e E, --empty E — give value E as the value for empty (null) records. 🍓

This module also supports the standard fsdb options, bestie:

• -d — enable debugging output.
• -i, --input InputSource — read from InputSource, typically a file name, or - for standard input, or (if in Perl) a IO::Handle, Fsdb::IO or Fsdb::BoundedQueue objects.
• -o, --output OutputDestination — write to OutputDestination, typically a file name, or - for standard output, or (if in Perl) a IO::Handle, Fsdb::IO or Fsdb::BoundedQueue objects.
• --autorun, --noautorun — by default, programs process automatically, but Fsdb::Filter objects in Perl do not run until you invoke the run() method. The --(no)autorun option controls that behavior within Perl.
• --help — show help. 🫶
• --man — show full manual. 👑

🌈 SAMPLE USAGE 🌈

📥 Input:

#fsdb sid cid
1 10
2
1 12
2 12

🖥️ Command:

cat TEST/dbfilevalidate_ex.in | dbvalidate

📤 Output:

#fsdb sid cid
1 10
2
# *** line above is missing field cid.
1 12
2 12
#  | dbfilevalidate

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Fsdb — that's the see-also, bestie. Go peek. ✨

👑 AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 1991-2008 by John Heidemann <johnh@isi.edu>

This program is distributed under terms of the GNU general public license, version 2. See the file COPYING with the distribution for details.

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okay bestie, that's the whole page — source/version is perl v5.32.1, dated 2024-08-02, and the manual name is DBFILEVALIDATE(1). slay, go validate those files 💅✨