in reply to Re^3: DBD::CSV Update
in thread DBD::CSV Update

Sounds like a recipe for failure. How do you think Joe Programmer will check the exact amount of *bytes* to the real data? Think UTF-8 and JPEG.

As an alternative, one could think of a start-of-data-tag.

Both however will only make life for DBD::CSV harder, as it has to put the same data back on the same place on updates. I'm still not convinced this would all be worth the trouble.


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

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Re^5: DBD::CSV Update
by soonix (Chancellor) on Jun 02, 2015 at 09:38 UTC

    Don't know about Joe, but I'd fire up a hex editor/viewer to look at the position :-)

    The thought leading to my suggestion was something with an SFX-like header, where the byte count would be known in advance. However, that was just a theoretical idea, so …

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