Re: BerkeleyDB: Graduating from text files; tutorial?

Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
> I've been using tab-delimited text files for my scripts' data
> files, and wish to "graduate" to using BerkeleyDB. (Scalability...)
>
> Is there a good tutorial somewhere?

perldoc DB_File

> (BTW, I am assuming that BDB will have a much simpler interface
> than DBI. Is that a correct assumption?)

Probably. It's far less complex.

> Also, I have been using basically Perl 4 constructs, as I've never
> understood the 5.x $-> notation. Is there a good tutorial for that,
> too?

http://learn.perl.org/

> Also, is B. DB itself (sleepycat's, not the Perl interface) free?
> If so, how is it supported? If not, how much does it cost?

perldoc DB_File

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