INDEX_DUMP(1p)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, gather round 🫶 — index_dump is the little icon that shows you the content of the index file. that's the whole job. no cap. 💅

this is from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and it's the 1p flavor of the page, iykyk.

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🎀 FORMAT 🎀

here's the shape of it, literally:

index_dump [options] file [ tag ]

and options are, one by one, no skipping:

• --debug — sets the debug level ✨
• --type — tells it the num/date/char type of the index 🦋
• --start — defines the value to start the dump from 🌸
• --n — also prints the total number of records in the file 🔥

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

like, here's what it actually looks like in the wild:

index_dump rooms.cdx FACILITY
index_dump --debug=14 --start=Dub rooms.cdx ROOMNAME

so cute, so simple, we love to see it 😭

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so Index_dump prints to standard output the content of the index file. main character energy, honestly. 👑

the type of the index is one of those supported by the XBase::Index Perl module, and the squad is: cdx, idx, ntx, ndx, mdx. 🎀

the output contains the index key and the value, and that value is the record number in the corresponding dbf file. that's the tea. 🍓

and listen — for multi-tag index files (like cdx, bestie), you need to specify the tag name to get the actual data. no tag, no data. periodt. 💀

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🔗 AVAILABLE FROM 🔗

http://www.adelton.com/perl/DBD-XBase/

go get it, it's giving resourceful ✨

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

(c) 1999--2013 Jan Pazdziora.

respect the legend 🫶

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• perl(1)
• XBase::Index(3pm)
• dbf_dump(1p)

the whole friendship circle, we stan 🌈💜

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and that's the page, bestie — this was index_dump(1p) from perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-06-13. slay, go dump some indexes 💅✨