[PLUG] DBD:CSV, DBD::AnyData & M$ "Log Parser"

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

Last night at PLUG W I was trying to recall the name of the Perl DBI/DBD 
"driver" that allows you to read and write CSV (and other, I thought) 
files as if they were SQL DBs.

I knew I'd seen it, and I was trying to follow it up after writing some 
brute-force Perl code to clean up some cruft in my rhythmdb.xml file. 
So I was Googling for "perl DBD XML" and finding only DBD::AnyData, 
which looked cool but wasn't ringing any bells.  I also wasn't finding 
it in the PLUG ML archives.

When I got home I thought to Google "perl dbd cvs" and the #1 hit was of 
course DBD::CVS.  <face-palm>

Either way, pretty cool stuff.

http://search.cpan.org/~hmbrand/DBD-CSV/lib/DBD/CSV.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~rehsack/DBD-AnyData-0.110/lib/DBD/AnyData.pm

Also semi-related, a free tool from M$ called the "Microsoft Log Parser" 
that does similar things, see my previous post: 
http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2009-08/msg00179.html

AAAAARRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!  And *there* is the darn reference to 
DBD::CVS!  I *knew* I sent that to PLUG, but I couldn't find it in the 
ML archives because I was still searching for the wrong name! 
<double-face-palm>

Later,
JP
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