Re: [htdig3-dev] iterating through db files via API


Geoff Hutchison (ghutchis@wso.williams.edu)
Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:55:39 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Richard L. Goerwitz wrote:

> Is there an obvious way to go though the db files (even with compression
> on) and extract information?

In C++? Yes. In Perl? Not really.

> I've noticed that a lot of the "contrib" material dealing with Ht://Dig
> assumes we'll be dumping information as plaintext.

Some attempts to read the database outright. If we want to keep the Perl
scripts, it would be a very good idea to work on a Perl interface to the
htcommon and htlib libraries. I just don't know anything about that side
of Perl...

-Geoff

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