A tough one: A flat text DB module
Is there a module (either downloadable, either included in perl itself) that let's you create a ascii database? To add, modify and remove records, search them etc.
I've been looking for quite a while but I couldn't find it.
Mark Hensler posted this at 04:41 — 11th November 2000.
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You don't need a module, you can do it all yourself
Ever heard of Ultimate Guestbook? (from the makers of UBB) It uses a flat file DB.
You just need to know how the information is stored in the file, and you can make a short script to pull it out, replace it, or delete it.
If you don't mind, what would you be using this for?
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zef posted this at 08:43 — 11th November 2000.
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Hehe, yeah I know that. I was just wondering if there is a module to do it easily and so I don't have to care weither a field contains \n's etc. I'll use it for YaBB 2 (second version of my BB). But I'm writing the module myself at the moment.
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japhy posted this at 12:37 — 11th November 2000.
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If you're dealing with a small amount of data, a plain ASCII file is ok, but as soon as you start getting a hundred records or so, modifications become a real hassle.
Why are you restricting yourself to a flat ASCII file, when actual database implementations do the work for you, and have better speed? DB_File, for instance, Perl's interface to Berkeley databases, is fast and efficient.
Mark Hensler posted this at 18:19 — 11th November 2000.
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so your actually writing a module for perl that will allow you to use a flat file DB similar to a real DB?
zef posted this at 18:22 — 12th November 2000.
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Max, yes I am.
And japhy. That's exactly the reason why I'm writing this module. You know that not much hosts (and certainly not free ones) allow mysql databases. So flat text databases are necissary for that group. And to make the program compatible with sql too, you only have to create a module with the similiar subs and change them to work with mysql or another sql server.
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