XBase::Memo(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

XBase::Memo — the generic support system for all the different memo formats out there, bestie 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so you don't actually call this one directly. It gets used indirectly, via XBase.

Used indirectly, via XBase.

Users should check its man page, fr fr 👑

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the vibe: objects of this class get created to deal with memo files, and right now that means .dbt, .fpt and .smt — and btw the code for that last one? Provided by Dirk Tostmann. We love a contributor moment 💅

The XBase::Memo package defines these methods:

• read_header — parses that header of the file and sets up the object's structures. Very "let me just read the room" of it.
• write_record — writes the records, properly formatted. No chaos allowed, everything in its little slot.
• last_record — finds the end of file. It's giving "we're done here" energy 🦋

And there are four separate subpackages hanging out inside XBase::Memo:

1. dBaseIII
2. dBaseIV
3. Fox
4. Apollo

Memo objects are effectively of one of these types, and they override their specific record handling routines where appropriate. Lowkey each one has its own personality and handles its own little record business. Periodt. 🌈

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

1.02 — yes, she's serving numbers 💜

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🍓 AVAILABLE FROM 🍓

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

go get her 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

(c) 1997--2011 Jan Pazdziora.

respect the legend 💖

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• perl(1)
• XBase(3)

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💀 real talk bestie: this page is generic support — if you're looking for the actual usage, that lives in XBase, so go read that man page first. No cap.

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okay and that's the whole page, we ate and left no crumbs 🎀 this was XBase::Memo(3pm) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, running on perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-06-13 — mwah, bye bestie 💅✨