2014/07/07 10:39 "Joe Pfeiffer" <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu>:
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> Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> writes:
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> > 2014/07/07 5:08 "Nuno Magalhães" <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt>:
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> >> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi
> >> <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite looks
> >> > very promising. There is a Perl DBI Interface to SQLite which might be what
> >> > I am after.
> >>
> >> >> > 2) I want the data to be in text format.
> >>
> >> SQLite keeps data in binary files.
> >
> > What do you mean by that?
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> Presumably, as opposed to human-readable text files.
Uhm, is text not a subset of binary (when talking about the contents of the files that implement a database)? Does SQLite encode text fields in some non-human-readable manner?
Okay, thinking about it a bit, the lack of delimiters, and the puzzling nature of binary zero when trying to read it as text, might be what Nuno was referring to. Comma delimited files provide visible, understandable delimiters,
Oh, and the INTEGER PRIMARY KEY is never readable as TEXT.
For some people seeking to keep data in text format, that might disqualify SQLite. Apparently not the OP?