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Re: Accessing an ASCII database? [message #33396 is a reply to message #33321]

Fri, 20 December 2002 19:29

Jonathan Greenberg
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Registered: November 2002

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I understand that, but can I put together a database using only IDL in an
hour or less? I'm using IDL for scientific research, and I don't want to
learn an entirely new language/program if I can create a "hack" that will
perform more or less just as well as a more elegant solution... If there is
an EASY way to do this in IDL, I'd love to know!

--j

On 12/20/02 4:05 PM, in article
df160b8f.0212201605.142abb79@posting.google.com, "Big Bird"
<condor@biosys.net> wrote:

> Jonathan Greenberg <greenberg@ucdavis.edu> wrote in message
> news:<BA274510.11DB6%greenberg@ucdavis.edu>...
>> I'm trying to develop an IDL routine that allows multiple machines running
>> IDL to query an ASCII database, and update it-- are there any prebuilt
>> routines that could help me out with this? I'm running into problems using
>> openu, because if two machines open the text file at the same time, strange
>> things ensue.
>
>
> Maybe this is a stupid comment, but things like SQL exist exactly to
> take care of things like this and to keep the programmer/user from
> having to worry about the underlying bit'n'byte logistics.
>
> Is there a reason why that db HAS to be in ascii? Would it be
> sufficient if it were in (adabas/oracle/whathaveyou) format and there
> was a little routine for showing records in ascii when needed?

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[Message index]

		Accessing an ASCII database? By: Jonathan Greenberg on Thu, 19 December 2002 09:42
		Re: Accessing an ASCII database? By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 23 December 2002 11:51
		Re: Accessing an ASCII database? By: Jonathan Greenberg on Fri, 20 December 2002 19:30
		Re: Accessing an ASCII database? By: Jonathan Greenberg on Fri, 20 December 2002 19:29
		Re: Accessing an ASCII database? By: condor on Fri, 20 December 2002 16:05
		Re: Accessing an ASCII database? By: thompson on Fri, 20 December 2002 08:15
		Re: Accessing an ASCII database? By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 19 December 2002 17:13
		sec : U Re: Accessing an ASCII database? By: Andrew Cool on Thu, 19 December 2002 15:14

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