[Gdal-dev] Re: joining DBFs

[Neil Best]

Sorry, I just looked at the OGR SQL page again for the first time in a 
while.  Is the JOIN support new?  Maybe I just conflated the GRASS and 
OGR SQL features.  This looks like it will do the trick.  As penance I 
will submit my query as an example.

Neil


Neil Best wrote:
> Can someone point me to a straightforward way to join attributes from an 
>   additional dbf table using either OGR or GRASS, or even Perl?  It's so 
> easy in Arc that I would think this has been solved in our world also.  
> So far my impression is that I would have to script a row-by-row UPDATE 
> since the SQL drivers don't support any type of JOIN afaik.  It seems 
> like I have seen an example somewhere using a Perl DBF module but I 
> can't put my finger on it.  I'll keep digging and hopefully this wheel 
> has been invented.
> 
> Neil
>