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From: Jack.Jansen at oratrix.com (Jack Jansen)
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:05:39 +0200
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Subject: simple indexed file module?
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References: <joe-120419991008353558@chinacat.salk.edu>
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Message-ID: <371316F3.29E6DC89@oratrix.com>
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X-UID: 186
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Joe Strout wrote:
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> For a CGI script I'm working on, I need to keep a couple of indexed
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> files. These will contain variable-length data (descriptions), which
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> may be changed fairly frequently. So I imagine that in addition to the
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> data file, there will be an index file that keeps track of the position
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> and length of each record. New or expanded records will be stuffed in
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> wherever there is free space, or at the end if no sufficient free chunk
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> is available.
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anydbm is probably the simplest here. Works on the Mac too, where gdbm is
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available.
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--
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Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++
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