Jose A. Rodriguez Garrido
josear+cpan@ac.upc.es
Usually when you have to store persistent data you don't need a full-blown database server, just a ASCII database would do the trick.
AsciiDB::Tag allows you to access a simple ASCII database using a perl hash variable. The database format is straightforward so you can edit it by hand if you need so. Each record is stored into a file, and a record is just a set of values tagged by the field name:
[Name]: Jose A. Rodriguez
[Address]: Granollers, Barcelona, SPAIN
The tie class provides a convenient way to read and update this kind of ASCII databases.
For comments, bugs or just to say you use or hate this class feel free to send me an e-mail.
As usual:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install