> i have a | delimited text data file and i want a perl script which
> accepts an input from a textbox on a html page(search.html) and search the
> lines containing that string and displays them in a html page
> format(show.html). Any help is appreciated. the html code for search. html
> and show.html are.
With DBD::AnyData you can use pipe delimited files like they were tables in a SQL database, so if you have any experience with DBI this is probably the way to go. That way, in the future you'll be able to upgrade this text file to a real database changing only few lines of your code. See:
http://search.cpan.org/search?module=DBD::AnyData
Alternatively, you can use AnyData::Format::Pipe to access your file like it was a Perl hash. Take a look at:
http://search.cpan.org/search?module=AnyData http://search.cpan.org/search?module=AnyData::Format::Pipe
This is an example from AnyData::Format::Pipe man page:
use AnyData;
my $table = adHash( 'Pipe', $filename,'r',$flags );
while (my $row = each %$table) {
print $row->{name},"\n" if $row->{country} =~ /us|mx|ca/;
}which is almost exactly what you are trying to do. It prints "name" fields of every row containing "us", "mx" or "ca" in its "country" field. You have to tune it to your own file format.
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