David Shere wrote: > > I am writing a CGI script that needs to query a FilePro database. > FilePro stores its data in proprietary binary file formats. My company > already has code that, from Perl, will execute a FilePro program and > read that program's output from the disk. My task is to bypass that > option and read directly from the FilePro Files. I presume that I can > write code to to read the binary files and parse the results, but I'd > like to find out if there is something already written that I can use. > I have searched google/cpan and so far have no luck. > > The CGI script I'm writing will take an input string and perform actions > based on whether that input string is found in any of the records in the > FilePro database. It will also need to get the rest of the information > in the matching record. > > If there is a more appropriate forum for this request, please let me > know.
FilePro is likely to support ODBC, in which case all you need is DBI and DBD::ODBC. HTH, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
