goodDBFValue()

static char * goodDBFValue ( char *  in, char  fieldType  )

static

Make appropriate formatting of a DBF value based on type.

Might return untouched input or pointer to static private buffer: use return value right away.

Definition at line 665 of file pgsql2shp-core.c.

{
        /*
         * We only work on FTLogical and FTDate.
         * FTLogical is 1 byte, FTDate is 8 byte (YYYYMMDD)
         * We allocate space for 9 bytes to take
         * terminating null into account
         */
        static char buf[9];
 
        switch (fieldType)
        {
        case FTLogical:
                buf[0] = toupper(in[0]);
                buf[1]='\0';
                return buf;
        case FTDate:
                buf[0]=in[0]; /* Y */
                buf[1]=in[1]; /* Y */
                buf[2]=in[2]; /* Y */
                buf[3]=in[3]; /* Y */
                buf[4]=in[5]; /* M */
                buf[5]=in[6]; /* M */
                buf[6]=in[8]; /* D */
                buf[7]=in[9]; /* D */
                buf[8]='\0';
                return buf;
        default:
                return in;
        }
}

Referenced by ShpLoaderGenerateShapeRow().

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