[Gllug] Reading an Access97 mdb file

John Hearns john.hearns at cern.ch
Tue Jan 7 11:07:33 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 10:55, John Hearns wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 10:14, Stan wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a way that I can extract data from a table held in
> > a access97 .mdb file...a perl modules would be best (can't find
> > anything on CPAN) but any linuxy thing would be useful.
> > 
> A quick search on Freshmeat turned up
> http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/
> Given that this project is dated Feb 2000, it is probably well out of
> date.

Just installed it. Last update in fact May this year, so should be good.

Looks like mdb-export tool gets the data out in CSV format, which should
be a start.


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