DbfReader constructor

Closes the DbfReader. This method will close internal resources and should be called when you have finshed using the DbfReader. After this method has been called any attempt to read a field or record data from the DbfReader will throw an Exception

Gets an array of strings representing the distinct record contents for a specified field. Each string in the returned array is trimmed to remove trailing spaces

returns a string representing the field[fieldIndex] of the Record[recordNumber] in the dbf file Throws ArgumentException if recordNumber ">=" NumberOfRecords or negative, fieldIndex >= FieldCount or negative,

Utility method to return the names of the fields in the DBF file Internally extracts the field names from the DBFRecordHeader

Gets an array of strings representing the fields of Record[recordNumber] in the DBF file Throws ArgumentException if recordNumber ">=" NumberOfRecords or negative

Gets an array of strings representing all of the record contents for a specified field. Each string in the returned array is trimmed to remove trailing spaces

returns the field index of fieldName. If a field with name fieldName does not exist the method will return -1

Returns the DbfFileHeader representing the contents of the DBF file's main header

Get/Sets the Encoding used to read string fields