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| You can use Perl to open, process and update information within text files. This chapter covers some of the technical and semantic processes that you will need to follow in order to use a text based database. Sample scripts include a system processing phone logs and a simple task manager using both native Perl code and the DBI toolkit with the DBD::CSV driver. This is also the chapter that covers the use of the publicly available dictionary, now available from this site! |
| Download: PC - Unix - Mac - Extra Info!!! |
| Chapter Script Status |
| Title | Script Name | Status |
| Reporting from the /etc/passed File |
pwls.pl |
No Change |
| Creating and Updating a Simple Text Database |
upddir.pl |
No Change |
| Reporting from a Simple Text Database |
dirdiff.pl |
No Change |
| Creating a Phone Record Reporter |
phone.pl |
No Change |
| Using Fixed-length Records to Store Data |
addtask.pl |
No Change |
| Reporting from Fixed-length Records |
listtask.pl |
No Change |
| Modifying or Deleting Records from a Packed Database |
modtask.pl |
No Change |
| Creating a Definitions Dictionary |
lword.pl |
Support File Update |
| Storing Data with the DBI CSV Toolkit |
addcsv.pl |
No Change |
| Reporting from a DBI CSV Database |
listcsv.pl |
No Change |
| Updating a DBI CSV Database |
modcsv.pl |
No Change |
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| Definitions Dictionary Update |
| Due to a small error on my part, the definitions dictionary, which features in this chapter, didn't appear on the CD. You can download the dictionary here (1.4Mb, Tar/Gzip). |
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