Re: DBM Files

2004-07-07 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Bolcato Chris wrote: Which DBM modules should be used or is most common, compatible, recommended? There is no simple answer to that question. See for instance the section "Standard Modules" in "perldoc perlport". In CGI scripts, where I care about portability and the databases are small, I prefer S

DBM Files

2004-07-07 Thread BOLCATO CHRIS (esm1cmb)
Hello all, Which DBM modules should be used or is most common, compatible, recommended? Would this be a good choice for sharing variable data with multiple perl scripts? Kind of a shared variable database? Chris

Re: DBM Files

2004-05-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Showalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> DBM files, particularly combined with tied hashes and modules Bob> like MLDBM and Storable are an excellent solution to many Bob> problems, IMO. Also see DBM::Deep (in the CPAN, but belongs

RE: DBM Files

2004-05-20 Thread Bob Showalter
BOLCATO CHRIS (esm1cmb) wrote: > Hello all, > I am fairly new to using Perl and have some questions regarding DBM > Files. The answer to a lot of these questions will be "it depends". It depends on what you're trying to do. > One, which type is recommended DB_File,

DBM Files

2004-05-20 Thread BOLCATO CHRIS (esm1cmb)
Hello all, I am fairly new to using Perl and have some questions regarding DBM Files. One, which type is recommended DB_File, GDBM, SDBM, NDBM etc.? Is it common practice to make use of DBM files? Or should I look into some other database structure? Is it a significant performance enhancement over

DBM Files

2001-05-23 Thread David Michael
I have a dbm file that i am trying to work with here. I am working with an established format : user = tagname: value\n tagname: value\n tagname: value\n... The problem I am having is where I try to retrieve that value of the tagname. dbmopen %PROXY, "$proxy", 0666 or die "Can'