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Re: simple database solution without root access



On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
>> My typical experience is that when people distinguish "text" vs
>> "binary" files, they mean the whole file can reasonably be made sense
>> of in a text editor (that's not a precise definition, of course, but I
>> think it serves the purpose).  When I open an SQLite database I have
>> handy with emacs, it is rife with nulls and other non-printing
>> characters.
>
> That's what i meant by "text", yes.
>
> Perl::DBI + SQLite seems to be taking the lead.

Uhm, so, you mean, you can reasonably make sense of it with hexdump
-C? (Or a custom hexdump that handles your brand of multi-byte
characters, perhaps?)

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