Hello, I am Martin Schaaf, Forth hacker and Perl mystified. I'm taking on a volunteer project to create a cgi script to maintain a simple flat file database and generate reports through email. Passwords and commands would be passed through the email Subject: line. The unique identifier for each record would be a password known only to the person who created that record. Results would be returned via email. I want to keep the database in a straight character deliminated text file format that could be fixed using a text editor if it gets corrupted.
I'm imagining that I can hack a simple maillist program to handle the email portion. My question is: Given a record of a character deliminated string of fields, how can I best insert and extract the record? Warm Regards, Martin Schaaf, M.S., EMDR II, San Francisco Bay Area Projects and interests: Poetry: http://users.cwnet.com/three4al/poems/ Plant Tissue Culture: http://users.cwnet.com/three4al/bamboo/ Freedom Summer Support Project http://users.cwnet.com/three4al/FSSP/ "We're waist deep in the Big Muddy and the damned fool says to push on." - Pete Seger NOTE: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage mechanism. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
