man AnyData::Format::Pipe () - tiedhash & DBI/SQL access to Pipe delimited files

NAME

AnyData::Format::Pipe - tiedhash & DBI/SQL access to Pipe delimited files

SYNOPSIS

 use AnyData;
 my $table = adHash( 'Pipe', $filename,'r',$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','Pipe', $filename,$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 will read column names from the first row of the file, or accept names passed by the user. In addition to column names, the user may set other options as follows: 

  col_names   : a pipe separated list of column names

If you are using this with DBD::AnyData, put ad_ in front of the flags, e.g. ad_eol.

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