From f294d4e084fa70f1d7c996d7f679490419249ddd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Ostrowsky <ben@esilibrary.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:50:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Renamed utility, added --help and perldoc documentation

---
 dbf-to-tsv.pl |   44 ---------------------------
 dbf2tsv       |   91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100755 dbf-to-tsv.pl
 create mode 100755 dbf2tsv

diff --git a/dbf-to-tsv.pl b/dbf-to-tsv.pl
deleted file mode 100755
index 3455d4c..0000000
--- a/dbf-to-tsv.pl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
-
-use strict;
-use warnings;
-
-use XBase;  # or could use DBI and DBD::XBase;
-use Data::Dumper;
-use Getopt::Long;
-use Encode;
-
-my $in = '';
-my $out = '';
-GetOptions('in=s' => \$in, 'out=s' => \$out);
-
-open OUT, ">$out" or die $!;
-
-my $table = new XBase $in or die XBase->errstr;
-
-# get list of field names
-my @names = $table->field_names;
-
-# dump PATRONID, SURNAME, FIRSTNAME
-print OUT join ("\t", @names) . "\n";
-
-sub clean {
-  if ( $_ ) { 
-    s/\\/\\\\/g;
-    s/\n/\\n/g; 
-    s/\r/\\r/g; 
-    s/\t/\\t/g; 
-    Encode::encode("utf8", $_) 
-  } else { ''; } # to avoid 'Use of uninitialized value in join'
-}
-
-my $i = 0;
-for (0 .. $table->last_record) {
-    $i++;
-    my ($deleted, @row) = $table->get_record($_);
-    @row = map (&clean, @row); 
-    print OUT join("\t", @row) . "\n" unless $deleted;
-
-}
-
-print STDERR "$i records exported to $out.\n";
diff --git a/dbf2tsv b/dbf2tsv
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b6974c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dbf2tsv
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use XBase;  # or could use DBI and DBD::XBase;
+use Data::Dumper;
+use Getopt::Long;
+use Encode;
+
+my $in = '';
+my $out = '';
+my $help = 0;
+GetOptions('in=s' => \$in, 'out=s' => \$out, 'help' => \$help);
+
+if ($help) { &show_help; }
+
+my @errors; 
+if ($in eq '') { push @errors, 'Input file must be specified ( --in inputfile.dbf )' };
+if ($out eq '') { push @errors, 'Output file must be specified ( --out outputfile.tsv )' };
+if (@errors > 0) { &show_help (@errors); }
+
+open OUT, ">$out" or die $!;
+
+my $table = new XBase $in or die XBase->errstr;
+
+# get list of field names
+my @names = $table->field_names;
+
+# dump PATRONID, SURNAME, FIRSTNAME
+print OUT join ("\t", @names) . "\n";
+
+sub clean {
+  if ( $_ ) { 
+    s/\\/\\\\/g;
+    s/\n/\\n/g; 
+    s/\r/\\r/g; 
+    s/\t/\\t/g; 
+    Encode::encode("utf8", $_) 
+  } else { ''; } # to avoid 'Use of uninitialized value in join'
+}
+
+my $i = 0;
+for (0 .. $table->last_record) {
+    $i++;
+    my ($deleted, @row) = $table->get_record($_);
+    @row = map (&clean, @row); 
+    print OUT join("\t", @row) . "\n" unless $deleted;
+
+}
+
+print STDERR "$i records exported to $out.\n";
+
+
+sub show_help {
+    my ($msg) = @_;
+    print "\nERROR - $msg\n" if $msg;
+    print <<HELP;
+
+dbf2tsv - convert XBase DBF to tab-separated format
+
+Notes:
+
+  * Escapes backslash, newline, carriage return, and tab characters.
+  * Converts to UTF-8.
+
+Usage: 
+
+  dbf2tsv --in inputfile.dbf --out outputfile.tsv
+
+HELP
+    exit;
+}
+
+=pod
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+  dbf2tsv - convert XBase DBF to tab-separated values
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+  dbf2tsv --in inputfile.dbf --out outputfile.dbf
+
+=head1 CAVEATS
+
+  Munges data in the following ways:
+
+  * Escapes backslash, newline, carriage return, and tab characters.
+  * Converts to UTF-8.
+=cut
-- 
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