XBase::SDBM(3pm)

💖 XBase::SDBM 💖

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for XBase::SDBM, the thing that does SDBM index support for dbf ✨ (the module name is XBase::SDBM, in case the header was being shy about it).

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so when the dev was building the XBase.pm/DBD::XBase module, the whole goal was to support as many existing variants of file formats as possible. iconic, right? the module therefore accepts a wide range of dbf files and their versions from all sorts of producers. 💅

but with index files? bestie. the task is much, much harder. first of all, there's little or no documentation of index file formats, so the whole development is based on reverse engineering. no cap. 🕵️♀️

and also — none of the index formats support is finalized. that made it super hard to integrate them into one consistent API. which is why the dev decided to write their own index support. and because they wanted to avoid inventing yet another way of storing records in pages and similar things, they used SDBM. it comes with Perl, so you already have it 💖, and it's proven and it works. periodt.

now, SDBM is a module that aims at other tasks than supporting indexes for a dbf. but equality tests are fast with it, and a structure was created in each index file to enable a "walk" through the index file. 🚶♀️✨

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🎀 VERSION 🎀

1.02

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🦋 AVAILABLE FROM 🦋

http://www.adelton.com/perl/DBD-XBase/

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

(c) 2001--2011 Jan Pazdziora.

All rights reserved. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. 💜

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fr fr that's the whole page, go forth and index responsibly 🫶

mwah 💋 this was rendered from perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-06-13, and it's the XBase::SDBM(3pm) page — slay, bye bestie! 🌈⭐