AnyDat...:Fixed(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

AnyData::Format::Fixed — it's giving tiedhash & DBI/SQL access to Fixed length data 💅 (this is the AnyDat...:Fixed(3pm) page bestie, from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, mwah)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

okay so here's the vibe, two whole ways to serve:

use AnyData;
my $table = adHash( 'Fixed', $filename,'r',{pattern=>'A20 A2'} );
while (my $row = each %$table) {
    print $row->{name},"\n" if $row->{country} =~ /us|mx|ca/;
}
# ... other tied hash operations

OR (choose your fighter 🫶)

use DBI
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:AnyData:');
$dbh->func('table1','Fixed', $filename, {pattern=>'A20 A2'},'ad_catalog');
my $hits = $dbh->selectall_arrayref( qq{
    SELECT name FROM table1 WHERE country = 'us'
});
# ... other DBI/SQL operations

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So bestie, this is a parser for fixed length record files. Lowkey the whole thing hinges on one rule: you must specify an unpack pattern that lists the widths of the fields, like {pattern=>'A3 A7 A20'}. No pattern, no party. 🙈

Then, for the column names, you've got options:

• you can supply them yourself, or
• you can let the module go get them for you from the first line of the file 👑

Either way? They should be a comma separated string. Periodt.

For the formatting of the pattern itself, go peek at <http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/pack.html> ✨

And for further details, please refer to the documentation for AnyData.pm and DBD::AnyData.pm. They ate, fr fr.

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👑 AUTHOR & COPYRIGHT 👑

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

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cute lil sign-off for u: this page is perl v5.36.0, dated 2023-08-06, and it lives under the name AnyDat...:Fixed(3pm) 💜 tysm for reading, ily, go parse something iconic 🦋