ASCII databases

pschoonveld has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Has anyone ever used any good modules for ASCII delimited databases? I have seen a couple kicking around, but it seems to me that there was a really good module for this I saw a while back. Thanks.

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Re: ASCII databases by Anonymous Monk on Mar 02, 2000 at 01:37 UTC
I strongly recommend Shishir Gundavaram's sprite.pm. It gets a bit clunky if you've got more than a few hundred records (as you'd expect), but since it uses SQL-like syntax it shouldn't involve too much pain to upgrade to a proper RDBMS at a later date. You can also use regular expressions as search criteria.	[reply]
Re: ASCII databases by btrott (Parson) on Mar 02, 2000 at 00:49 UTC
Check out DBD::CSV. It's a DBI database driver that lets you use comma-separated text files as if they were databases.	[reply]
Re: Re: ASCII databases by XTaran (Initiate) on Aug 26, 2001 at 16:56 UTC
Yepp, Using DBI with DBD::CSV is fine for that job (and it does allow to use other delimiters than comma, too. I prefer "\|" :-), but unfortunately it still lacks of joining data from several files/tables. That means "SELECT * FROM table1,table2;" doesn't work yet. :-/ -- There is no place like $HOME	[reply]
RE: ASCII databases by Anonymous Monk on Mar 02, 2000 at 01:15 UTC
The Perl Cookbook by O'Reilly shows two ways to do this. The module to use is: use Text::ParseWords;	[reply]
Re: ASCII databases by Anonymous Monk on Mar 03, 2000 at 20:41 UTC
i'd advise a DBI module for later migration options ;-)	[reply]

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