Usually i am good about saying stuff like "here is some more advice to go along with diotalevi's even more excellent advice." This time i didn't. bad jeffa.

diotalevi, if you are upset that sulfericacid did not take your advice to use BerkeleyDB, then i am sorry that i carved a "path of least resistance" for sulfericacid. That is not what i meant at all. Since sulfericacid did not (apparantly) know about anything about file locking at all, i thought "why not ask him to read one of our tutorials?" I think you would rather sulfericacid had read that tutorial than not ... now sulfericacid has some background to work with. That's good.

sulfericacid ... now that you know about file locking, you really should give BerkeleyDB a whirl. Then, once you have mastered that, try out the even cooler SQLite (by the way ... DBD::SQLite is merely the Perl driver for SQLite). SQL is indeed a hurdle you have to spend time to overcome ... but once you learn it, when the time comes to start using a real RDMS (Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, etc.) you will already be ready for it.

Oh, and since no one has said it yet ... turnstep++ for her excellent tutorial. ;)

jeffa

"The path of least resistance always leads you to the least everytime." -- Ty Hagar

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