XBase::SDBM(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation XBase::SDBM(3)NAMEXBase::SDBM - SDBM index support for dbf
DESCRIPTION
When developing the XBase.pm/DBD::XBase module, I was trying to support
as many existing variants of file formats as possible. The module thus
accepts wide range of dbf files and their versions from various
producers. But with index files, the task is much, much harder. First,
there is little or no documentation of index files formats, so the
development is based on reverse engineering.
None if the index formats support is finalized. That made it hard to
integrate them into one consistent API. That is why I decided to write
my own index support, and as I wanted to avoid inventing yet another
way of storing records in pages and similar things, I used SDBM. It
comes with Perl, so you already have it, and it's proven and it works.
Now, SDBM is a module that aims at other task than to do supporting
indexes for a dbf. But equality tests are fast with it and I have
creted a structure in each index file to enable "walk" though the index
file.
VERSION
1.02
AVAILABLE FROM
http://www.adelton.com/perl/DBD-XBase/
AUTHOR
(c) 2001--2011 Jan Pazdziora.
All rights reserved. This package is free software; you can
redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.14.1 2011-03-03 XBase::SDBM(3)
