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Re:You Should Learn Regex by brightball on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @09:07AM (#15449405)
I found the same thing. When I was writing Perl half the point was using regex. I inherited a site about 5 years ago that was a huge Perl site built entirely on text files and regex. The developer had basically built a database out of text files. He had directories for indexes, associations, etc.

It wasn't pretty to look at but it was still to this day the fastest site I've ever worked on.

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Re:You Should Learn Regex by tzahola on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @09:10AM (#15449417)
How did he achieve transactionality?
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Re:You Should Learn Regex by brightball on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @09:21AM (#15449482)
Anywhere that he'd need transaction safety in the system, everything was contained in a single file.

There were other jobs that could rebuild indexes by scan, repair associations or break things down into parts of use on other areas of the site but the areas that needed safety were lumped together as a single record (similar to the NoSQL approach honestly).

It wasn't a general purpose setup, but it worked for his purposes.

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