makedbfspec
Create DBF specification
Syntax
Description
creates a DBF specification for use with the dbfspec
= makedbfspec(S
)shapewrite
function based
on the vector geographic features stored in S
.
The shapewrite
function creates a main file
(.shp
), an index file (.shx
), and an attribute file
(.dbf
). Use a DBF specification with the
shapewrite
function and DbfSpec
name-value
argument to specify which attribute fields to include in the DBF file, the length of each
field, and the numerical precision of each field.