Re:Why you should learn just a little Awk - A Tutorial by Ex...
by viraptor on Saturday August 27, 2011 @08:22PM
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That was my question - why do that?
If you need a database, you really shouldn't allow the text to be parsed as anything else than originally intended. With "just text with a non-rigid structure" it's just too easy to make a silly mistake. So what is the advantage here, given we have bdb and sqlite on almost every machine nowadays?
Or the other way - if you need something human-readable, why use is as a database? Why not keep the data where the data belongs and generate the reports when needed from there?
If you need a database, you really shouldn't allow the text to be parsed as anything else than originally intended. With "just text with a non-rigid structure" it's just too easy to make a silly mistake. So what is the advantage here, given we have bdb and sqlite on almost every machine nowadays?
Or the other way - if you need something human-readable, why use is as a database? Why not keep the data where the data belongs and generate the reports when needed from there?