Arguments

shapefile  (string) the .shp file to be compiled into .shx format

Return

(string) name of the compiled .shx file, or NIL of compilation fails

Example

(vle-file->list "MyData.dat" ";")
loads all file lines into returned list, and ignores all lines starting with ";" character (omitted)

Alias

Remarks

if  does not contain a path specification, the file is searched in SupportPaths sequence the normal way like (findfile);
the .shx file is always generated in same folder as the input .shp file