On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:38:09AM -0800, Jeff Zucker wrote:
>
> The namespace would look like this:
>
> DBD/AnyData.pm DBI access to in-memory & file-based
> data
> AnyData.pm access & convert many data formats
> AnyData/Parser/CSV.pm parser for CSV (comma separated
> values)
> AnyData/Parser/XML.pm parser for XML data & files
> AnyData/Parser/Ini.pm parser for Ini style config data &
> files
> AnyData/Parser/FixedWidth.pm parser for fixed-width records
> AnyData/Parser/*.pm parsers for other data formats
> AnyData/Storage/RAM.pm storage manager for in-memory tables
> AnyData/Storage/File.pm storage manager for file-based
> tables
> AnyData/Storage/Tie.pm storage manager for tied structures
> AnyData/Storage/*.pm other types of storage managers
The name 'Parser' is a little ambiguous.
Is it a custom SQL parser or, as implied above, parsing the contents
of the data file. If the latter then how does it relate to the Storage
modules?
Tim.
