jthomas has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi

Would somebody show some light on how can we use DB_File for storing and retrieve multi dimensional (eg: two dimensional) arrays.

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Re: DB_File multidimensional array
by nif (Sexton) on Jan 27, 2011 at 08:23 UTC

    Look at DBD::SQLite also,

    • your still get all your data in one file
    • no DB server processes
    • multiple tables in one file
    • sql language for selects and inserts
    • transactions
    • concurrent access

Re: DB_File multidimensional array
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 27, 2011 at 07:47 UTC

      When i checked MLDBM, got a feel like it supports only multi dimensional hashes? Couldn't find any examples with @ in cpan