dragonchild has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've got a bunch of data that my customer wants to be able to have SQL-type searches through. Now, the data could be put into a good DB-schema, but I've got about 4-6 man-hours that I'm allotted to work on it, and the data is quite ugly, in terms of normalization. There's also not very many lines, and other such things which make me want to avoid a DB, if possible. (Things like the dataset is never going to grow, etc.)

So, I thought that I could see if there was a CPAN module(s) out there that would do something like this. Anyone ever heard of a module doing anything close to this?

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(jeffa) Re: Mimicking SQL...
by jeffa (Bishop) on Aug 16, 2001 at 23:51 UTC
    Check out the various DBD modules:

    jeffa

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      you forgot DBD::AnyData, which is the updated version of the one you called evil.
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Re: Mimicking SQL...
by Hanamaki (Chaplain) on Aug 17, 2001 at 00:16 UTC
    In addition to jeffa's answer:
    Maybe Sprite could do the job.

    Hanamaki
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Re: Mimicking SQL...
by princepawn (Parson) on Aug 17, 2001 at 00:38 UTC
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