AnyDat...agraph(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, so this page is about AnyData::Format::Paragraph — and it lives in the AnyDat...agraph(3pm) manpage (yeah the header's truncated, we don't talk about it 💅). it's all about tiedhash & DBI/SQL access to vertical files. like, you get to talk to your weird little vertical text files with hashes and SQL. iconic behavior honestly 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

two ways in, pick your fighter:

 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

like yes, use DBI with no semicolon, that's just how the manpage wrote it, I'm not touching it, periodt 💀

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so this is a plug-in format parser for the AnyData and DBD::AnyData modules. it's the little helper that lets those modules eat your files 🍓

what it handles is "vertical" files — meaning the record name sits on its own line, all by itself, and then the records come after it on lines by themselves too. very main character, very solo, no sharing lines. like this:

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

 Nutscrape
 /htdocs/
 .html, .htm

see? name, then its little lines underneath. that's the vibe 🧚

if you want the full tea, go read the docs for AnyData.pm and DBD::AnyData.pm — that's where the further details live, bestie, I'm just the plug-in girlie

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👑 AUTHOR & COPYRIGHT 👑

so, credit where it's due:

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

respect to the original author, fr fr 🫶

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and that's a wrap! this page is perl v5.36.0, dated 2023-08-06, courtesy of the User Contributed Perl Documentation crew — slay, thanks for reading, mwah 💖✨🎀