title: Reading table details from Database container (.dbc)
body: <p>I have an application which has about 30 .dbf tables, and these tables are all recorded in a single database container.  A very brief description of each table is held in the Table Comment of each table, and hence in the ‘Property’ field of the relevant record in the dbc.</p>
  
  <p>I would like to offer the user a chance to define a simple report which I would then send to an Excel file (am familiar with the VFP interface to Excel).  To that end I need to display the table name and table comment (and a list of fields from the .dbf file itself).</p>
  
  <p>Is there an easy way to extract the ‘Table comment’ part of the ‘Property’ field?  I believe that I need to parse that field, since the ‘Table comment’ is embedded within it.</p>