I am trying to use the field names and definitions to create a new DBF file and want to have the same Field names in this file as the one I am extracting data from. The DBF files I am trying to create are part of another process that uses those created by the ESRI Shape file processing. The field Names I have to work with are both upper and lower case. Is there a specific reason why uc is used the coding ? For my partial use of the code I tried cloning the XBase.pm module and removing the uc from the code and it worked fine for my purpose but it could be a problem elsewhere that I am not using. A suggested change would be to allow a flag to have the output uppercase and default to what ever is in the header.