I'm trying to write some Perl code to deal with a set of GDBM data files that are maintained by Tolis Group's BRU, our backup software. While BRU seems to be quite bulletproof about the actual backup and restoration of data, the reporting features of the interfaces are somewhat lacking.

The database management parts of BRU appear to be written in Python and the data records appear to be Python tuples. A typical data file looks like this: 

( 'string1', 'string 2', [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ], [ '/usr/bin', '/users' ], 'st
+ring3' ] )

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If I'm not mistaken, this is the way Python displays tuples. Is anyone aware of a Perl module or script out there that can read this sort of data, without having to write my own parser, or, worse, go off and learn Python to do this?

Thanks and regards,

John

In reply to Reading Python-esque GDBM files easily? by thenarf

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