From: Mike Blezien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Was hoping some one may have some helpful suggestion as how to deal > with the a potiental problem. We have a dedicated server we would like > to update perl on, from v. 5.6.1 to 5.8.* and have found out the the > existing .db files used by alot of our customer with shopping carts > that use DBM files to store various data, the .db files will not work > on 5.8.* version. > > Is there a way to quickly convert the existing .db DBM files used by > perl 5.6.1 so they will work if you upgrade perl to 5.8.1 without > loosing all these .db files... and causing all kinds of problems with > our customers :(
Export them all as CSVs (or something), upgrade perl, convert the CSVs back to DBMs. Use Text::CSV_XS to write&read the CSV. It should take just two tiny scripts. First would use File::Find to search for the DBMs, tie them to a hash, create filename.db.csv, loop over the hash with each() and write the $keys and $values in the the file using Text::CSV_XS. The other would then do the oposite conversion. Jenda ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
