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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In reply to Mimicking SQL... by dragonchild

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