NAME

AnyData::Format::Paragraph - tiedhash & DBI/SQL access to vertical files

SYNOPSIS

use AnyData;
my $table = adHash( 'Paragraph', $filename,'r',$flags );
while (my $row = each %$table) {
   print $row->{name},"\n" if $row->{country} =~ /us|mx|ca/;
}
# ... other tied hash operations

OR

use DBI
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:AnyData:');
$dbh->func('table1','Paragraph', $filename,$flags,'ad_catalog');
my $hits = $dbh->selectall_arrayref( qq{
    SELECT name FROM table1 WHERE country = 'us'
});
# ... other DBI/SQL operations

DESCRIPTION

This is a plug-in format parser for the AnyData and DBD::AnyData modules.

It handles "vertical" files in which the record name occurs on a line by itself followed by records on lines by themselves, e.g.

Photoslop
/My Photos/
.jpg, .gif, .psd

Nutscrape
/htdocs/
.html, .htm

Please refer to the documentation for AnyData.pm and DBD::AnyData.pm for further details.

AUTHOR & COPYRIGHT

copyright 2000, Jeff Zucker <jeff@vpservices.com> all rights reserved