Description:
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The dBase-extension, which is bundled with PHP, fills empty dBase-fields with a zero.



Reproduce code:
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<?php
$db = @dbase_open('test.dbf', READ_ONLY);

print "<pre>\n";

for ($i = 1; $i <= dbase_numrecords($db); $i++) {
   $row = dbase_get_record($db, $i);
   printf("%7d: %s\n", $i, join('|', $row));
}

print "</pre>\n";

dbase_close($db);
?>

Expected result:
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Access, Office 2003 and various dBase-readers can read those fields and leave them empty.

Right now, you can't differ "real" zero entries from empty entries :-(

Actual result:
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Fields, which are empty (not marked as deleted) are filled with zeros.