[Qgis-user] editing dbf files

[pcreso at pcreso.com]

Try the shapelib programs:

They include dbfdump, a simple utility to extract the contents of a dbf to a text file, From here they can pretty easily be edited directly or loaded into a database such as Postgres or Mysql for updating.

see http://shapelib.maptools.org/shapelib-tools.html#dbfdump

You can then use the dbfcreate progranm to create a new dbf file to contain the edited records & the dbfadd program to iterate through your new data to load the records. 


HTH,

  Brent Wood