Paul,
Just a clarification: I wasn't the original poster.
Christopher J. Crane was the original asker of the CSV/flat file database
question.
I do have a db to use.
Cheers,
db
Paul Burney wrote:
> on 1/14/02 2:12 PM, Daniel Barton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] appended the following
> bits to my mbox:
>
> > Well maybe I should just go out and join that perl list.
>
> I was going to respond to you but I didn't have a good answer. :)
>
> I don't know of any built in PHP functions that do what you are looking to
> do. There are some special fgets-type functions for use with CSV, but
> nothing that treats it as SQL.
>
> You might want to try the PEAR repository to see if they have anything, but
> I'm not hopeful.
>
> For those of you who aren't familiar with it, the Perl DBI::CSV module
> allows you to use a CSV file as a simple SQL database. Very nice if you
> don't have a real database to work with (which in this case, Mr. Barton
> doesn't).
>
> I was at a workshop by Randal Schwartz where he showed a bit of how to use
> it. Very cool...
>
> If you can't get the clients to go for the extra cost, I'd recommend going
> with Perl. Choose the best tool for the job at hand, TMTOWTDI.
>
> Paul
>
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