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Subject: Re: DBM?
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Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 15:23:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Craig Shaver" <craig@ProGroup.COM>
In-Reply-To: <9604308334.AA833486756@ccgate.infoworld.com> from "Brett Glass" at May 30, 96 12:04:05 pm
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> 
> 
> I'm refreshing my knowledge of Perl in preparation for some big CGI
> programming jobs. As I've worked my way through the most recent crop of
> Perl books, I've seen many references to Perl's ability to treat databases
> as associative arrays. The books say that the databases must be created and
> managed by a package, library, or program (they're not clear on which)
> called DBM.
> 
> What is DBM, and is it available for FreeBSD?
> 
> --Brett
> 
> 

I think the DBM they are referring to is the same as one of NDBM, GDBM, and
DB_File.  See also btree, DB, dbopen, etc.  Perl should have built an interface
to the berkeley db stuff when it was configured.  I use perl 5.002 so there 
could be differences.  Try a man on perlfunc and look for dbmopen and tie.

YMMV,


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