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Learning Perl, 5th Edition
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Learning Perl, 5th Edition

by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, brian d foy
June 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
352 pages
11h 16m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Databases

If you’ve got a database, Perl can work with it. This section describes some of the common types of databases. We’ve already seen the DBI module briefly in Chapter 11.

Direct System Database Access

Perl can directly access some system databases, sometimes with the help of a module. These are databases like the Windows Registry (which holds machine-level settings), or the Unix password database (which lists which username corresponds to which number, and related information), as well as the domain-name database (which lets you translate an IP number into a machine name, and vice versa).

Flat-file Database Access

If you’d like to access your own flat-file databases from Perl, there are modules to help you with doing that (seemingly a new one every month or two, so any list here would be out-of-date).

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