TABDELIM_TO_DB(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, this is TABDELIM_TO_DB(1) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation girlies, and the command is tabdelim_to_db — convert tab-delimited data into fsdb. That's it, that's the whole main-character job. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tabdelim_to_db <source.tabdelim >target.fsdb

The classic redirect setup: <source.tabdelim comes in, >target.fsdb goes out. Slay. 🎀

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

It converts a tab-delimited data stream to Fsdb format. No cap. ✨

The input is tab-delimited (not fsdb), okay? The first row is taken to be the names of the columns; tabs separate columns. Periodt. 🧚

The output is a fsdb file with a proper header and a tab field-separator. That's the vibe: tabs in, fsdb out. 🦋

This module also supports the standard fsdb options: iykyk.

• -d — Enable debugging output. 👀
• -i or --input InputSource — Read from InputSource, typically a file name, or - for standard input, or (if in Perl) a IO::Handle, Fsdb::IO or Fsdb::BoundedQueue objects. 💖
• -o or --output OutputDestination — Write to OutputDestination, typically a file name, or - for standard output, or (if in Perl) a IO::Handle, Fsdb::IO or Fsdb::BoundedQueue objects. 🎀
• --autorun or --noautorun — By default, programs process automatically, but Fsdb::Filter objects in Perl do not run until you invoke the run() method. The --(no)autorun option controls that behavior within Perl. 🫶
• --help — Show help. 🙈
• --man — Show full manual. 📖

🍓 SAMPLE USAGE 🍓

Input:

               name    email   test1
               Tommy Trojan    tt@usc.edu      80
               Joe Bruin       joeb@ucla.edu   85
               J. Random       jr@caltech.edu  90

Command:

           tabdelim_to_db

Output:

               #fsdb -Ft name email test1
               Tommy Trojan    tt@usc.edu      80
               Joe Bruin       joeb@ucla.edu   85
               J. Random       jr@caltech.edu  90
               #  | dbcoldefine name email test1

See? The header shows up, the rows stay iconic, and the dbcoldefine note is right there at the end. Obsessed. 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Fsdb. Go peep that, bestie. 💜

👑 AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 1991-2008 by John Heidemann <johnh@isi.edu> 💖

This program is distributed under terms of the GNU general public license, version 2. See the file COPYING with the distribution for details. 📜

mwah 💋 — this page is from perl v5.32.1, dated 2024-08-02, and it's TABDELIM_TO_DB(1), periodt. 🌈