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[email protected] (Rasca Gmelch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: ANNOUNCE: dbflib 0.5 - xbase library for C/Perl
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Date: 1 Sep 1996 21:43:59 GMT
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hi perl hackers,
i want you inform, that i've released version 0.5 of my
dbflib package for xbase files (dbase and foxpro).
the package consists of a C library and a perl module to
access the C library directly from your perl program. let me
point out some features and differences to Pratap's Xbase
module:
- ACCESS:
with dbflib you have also write access to the tables, but
dbflib doesn't support index files :(
- SPEED:
coded in C it's faster for raw access, but slower
for searching cause the lack of index file support
- API:
near all methods of the Xbase module are supported to
be as much as possible compatible. but there are also
my own methods, e.g.
use Dbf;
$db = Dbf->new("my.dbf");
$db->open() || die;
while (@rec = $db->next()) {
print "@rec" . "\n";
}
$db->close();
__END__
until now i've about 30 methods in the perl module
- ALPHA:
it's alpha, but i hope there are not too much bugs :)
- COPYRIGHT:
GNU Library GPL
- SOURCE:
look at
http://home.pages.de/~rasca/dbflib/
if you think it's interessting enough, perhaps i should upload
it to CPAN?
cu
rasca
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