[Freegis-list] tool to convert dBase (dbf) files

[José Gómez-Dans]

On Monday 03 December 2007 18:46:57 Tim Michelsen wrote:
> Is there something like this as FOSS?
>
> Or does anyone know whether I can directly export a attribute table from a
> GRASS vector to ascii?

OGR (part of GDAL) will do this for you. I don't have any GRASS vector file at 
hand, but with a shapefile, it works. You might want to have a look at 
ogr2ogr's myriad options.

$ ogr2ogr -f CSV output world.shp world
$ head -n 10 output/world.csv
NAME,CAPITAL,APPROX,AREA,SOURCETHM
GUATEMALA,GUATEMALA,        9705000,109727.896245869997074,Country_col_regi
BOLIVIA,LA-PAZ,        7411000,1092978.782902699895203,Country_col_regi
PARAGUAY,ASUNSION,        5003000,401654.615222979977261,Country_col_regi
URUGUAY,MONTEVIDEO,        3151000,176325.416958260000683,Country_col_regi
SURINAME,PARAMARIBO,         413000,144337.565436019998742,Country_col_regi
FRENCH GUIANA,CAYENNE,         151187,83835.861705215997063,Country_col_regi
WESTERN SAHARA,LAAYONE,         222631,268271.005264799983706,Country_col_regi
GAMBIA,BANJUL,         916000,10603.453404558000329,Country_col_regi
MOROCCO,RABAT,       27005000,416438.776374819979537,Country_col_regi

Cheers,
Jose

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