The reason I need a new DB is based off the assumption that the problem in my current script which still, after a month and a half of debugging and asking for help, is a database problem rather than coding error. I can't give specifics as they aren't even known to me, I just wanted to see if the script would function more properly if it used a different DB (hopefully one similar to SDBM). | [reply] |
Assuming you used SDBM_File, you can just switch to NDBM_File or GDBM_File with almost no changes. Without knowing any more details about the problem you're having with sdbm, that's as much help as I can offer.
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I can't give specifics as they aren't even known to me
If you don't know what the errors are, how will you tell whether the other DB works correctly or not?
I betcha 20 to 1 that the database does what it's supposed to do, just as it has for the last 20 years. The problem is in your understanding of what it does, how it works, or how to invoke it. So replacign one functioning DB with a different functioning DB won't get you any further.
Figure out what you want it to do, figure out how to do it manually, one step at a time, and then automate.
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