Sundeep schreef: > I am doing requirement analysis to build a forum (discussion board) > using Perl. > Currently the data is planned to be kept in text files, but later it > may be moved to a database. > > I am new to database module (in fact to database related stuff). I > read that DBI module is database independent. I want to know that can > it be possible to keep text files as database currently and later > changing to other database? > > Is there any module that will fetch me the records from a text file > (like csv file) when I pass a SQL statement. > > Ideally, I need very less change in my code in future.
Consider starting with SQLite. It is easy to import the text files into the database. http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Rose::DB::SQLite Of course you can also start with DBI and DBD::CSV, http://search.cpan.org/search?query=DBD::CSV -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
