Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 15:23:12 -0700 (PDT) From: "Craig Shaver" <craig@ProGroup.COM> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DBM? Message-ID: <199605302223.PAA20303@seabass.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, -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088
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