It only solves problem with the header but binary data could be in a record as well in case of integer, datetime, etc fields.


>Maybe I'm wrong, but is this will accurate if the value "|" (0x7C or 124 decimal) appear in .DBF header?
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>I think this code below will prevent that case
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>lcData=FILETOSTR("timep.dbf")
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>*!* skip until first record
>lnFirstRecordOffset = CTOBIN(SUBSTR(m.lcData, 9, 2), "2RS")
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>lnCount=OCCURS("|", SUBSTR(m.lcData, m.lnFirstRecordOffset + 1))
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