Re: A little database

[Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>]

dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) writes:

> For a database, the most sensible portable format would be CSV. That
> way it can be imported, exported, edited, and manipulated with any
> database or spreadsheet tool you users might have or want (even a text
> editor). Unless you have complicated hierarchal relationships that
> can't be easily expressed in tabular format, XML is overkill (and
> relatively poorly supported overkill, at that).

Overkill at first sight... but with XML you can parse, validate, publish or
whatever... This is the same argument that say that Ada is overkill compared
to C!

> I don't know of any Ada support for creating CSV's, but the format is

I have a Text_Key_File component on my homepage that does just that. Handle a
file where each line is composed of fields. The separator can be
configured. Not also that this is a job that is easy to do with GNAT.AWK.

Pascal.

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