Hello!

Here's a stumper for me, but perhaps something easy to someone else,

I have a program that intereacts with a database, which, at the moment is a plain text file. I want to allow people to also use an SQL table for saving information, BUT I want to allow people to still be able to use that plain text format.

I thought I would solve this having a base Class, let's call it TheDb and then have subclasses (i hope this is the correct lingo), called, say TheDb::PlainText and TheDb::SQL TheDb.pm will just have enough code to say 'hey , inherent the Plain Text methods for your own' or 'hey, SQL methds are the way to go' preferably by passing a variable in the new() statement for TheDb 

 
my $h = TheDb->new('PlainText'); 
      $h->fetch($this); 
      $h->save($that); 
      $h->get_me('a_beer');

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Seems like this would be pretty cut and dry, but the actual way you set the Base class up is stumping me, can anyone help?

-justin simoni
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