Difference between revisions of "DBF DBF()"

Latest revision as of 16:55, 15 December 2009

Return the database name

api_dbf_dbf()

#include "dbapi.h"
 
char	*DBF_DBF()
 
<input parameters>
none
 
<output parameters>
none

The DBF_DBF() function will return the name of the currently selected database as character string, or a NULL if none is active.

The database name is returned in lower case including the file extension.

The following example returns the name of the database in the current workarea.

#include "dbapi.h"
 
dbapi_dbf_dbf()
{
    char 	*dbfname()
 
    dbfname = DBF_DBF();
 
    _retc( dbfname );
}

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 ==DESCRIPTION==
 The DBF_DBF() function will return the name of the currently selected database as character string, or a NULL if none is active.
-Recital provides you with 100 workareas by default, however, up to 256 may be set with the [[DB_MAXWKA]] environment variable / symbol.
 The database name is returned in lower case including the file extension.