# I have found a bug when process dbf file

**URL:** <https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/i-have-found-a-bug-when-process-dbf-file/821>\
**Category:** CloverDX Platform\
**Created:** [February 15, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/i-have-found-a-bug-when-process-dbf-file/821 "2011-02-15T00:00:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![leeyue\_0530](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@leeyue\_0530](https://forum.cloverdx.com/u/leeyue_0530)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/i-have-found-a-bug-when-process-dbf-file/821/1 "2011-02-15T00:00:00Z")

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When the dbf file has field that field type is ‘Numeric’ and the length is ‘13’, then CloverETL Designer can not create the metadata by ‘extract from dbf file’ for this file.  
Please confirm and fixed it. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![avackova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/65b543/32.png) [@avackova](https://forum.cloverdx.com/u/avackova)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/i-have-found-a-bug-when-process-dbf-file/821/2 "2011-02-15T13:18:14Z")

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Hello,  
problem was, that analyzer looked for header record terminator each 8 bytes instead whole field description (32). Unfortunately there is this byte (0xd) on the position 1616 in your file and the analyzer didn’t guess the file structure properly (dBASE Version 7 instead of FoxBASE).