NAME

File::SimpleQuery - Query flat-files, simply!

VERSION

Version 0.01

SYNOPSIS

Have you ever wanted to make queries against a flat-file, similar to a database, but did not want to setup all the necessary database machinery? Enter File::SimpleQuery, which is intended to allow you to make simple sql-like queries against a file you specify.

Intended to make querying simple files easier. The file in question is expected to have the first row be a header row, which is how it knows whichs fields to select from.

    use File::SimpleQuery;

    my $delimiter = ',';
    my $filename = 'test_file';
    my $q = File::SimpleQuery->new($filename, $delimiter);

    my @results = $q->select(
        [ qw/ field1 fieldn / ],
        sub { my $fields = shift; return 1 if $fields->{field1} eq 'foo' },
    );

FUNCTIONS

new

The constructor. You must specify the filename and the delimiter between rows

select ( \@field_names_to_select, \&where_sub, \@group_by_fields )

Returns a list of hash-refs that match the lines in the file where the where_sub evaluates to true, groupped by the group_by_fields

AUTHOR

Ben Prew, <btp at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-file-simplequery at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=File-SimpleQuery. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc File::SimpleQuery

You can also look for information at:

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  http://annocpan.org/dist/File-SimpleQuery

• CPAN Ratings

  http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/File-SimpleQuery

• RT: CPAN's request tracker

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=File-SimpleQuery

• Search CPAN

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-SimpleQuery

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2006 Ben Prew, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.