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      $fout = $file;
      $fout = $outprefix . $fout;
   }

   my $out = CAM::DBF->create($fout, "w", @{$dbf->{fields}});
   if (!$out)
   {
      &croak("Cannot open output file $fout: $!\n");
   }

   my $infh = $dbf->{fh};
   my $outfh = $out->{fh};

   # Trust the nrecordbytes from $out rather than $dbf since we just
   # recomputed the former
   my $nrecordbytes = $out->{nrecordbytes};

   my $buffer;
   my $printedrows = 0;
   for (my $row = 0; $row < $dbf->nrecords(); $row++)
   {
      read $infh, $buffer, $nrecordbytes;
      next if ($buffer !~ /^ /); # skip deleted
      print $outfh $buffer;
      $printedrows++;
   }
   $out->{nrecords} = $printedrows;
   $out->closeDB();
}

__END__

=for stopwords packdbf DBF

=head1 NAME

packdbf - Rebuild DBF files, removing deleted rows

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 packdbf [options] [file ...]

 Options:
   -h --help             verbose help message
   -o --outfile=<file>   write output to <file> (overrides -x)
   -x --outprefix=<pre>  use <pre> as output prefix

 Defaults:
   -o out_<infile>
   -x out_

=head1 DESCRIPTION

One or more files specified on the command line are read in and
written back out, rebuilding the header from scratch and removing rows
flags for deletion.  Output is typically specified with the C<-o> flag,
but lacking that, it is written to C<out_$infile>, given input C<$infile>.
The output prefix can be changed with the C<--outprefix> parameter.

The output or input can be C<-> specifying STDIN or STDOUT, but this is
fragile and likely will only work for reading.

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<CAM::DBF>

=head1 AUTHOR

Chris Dolan, Clotho Advanced Media, F<chris@clotho.com>

=cut