snobol4sqlite3dbm - Man Page
"dbm" style interface for SNOBOL4 using SQLite3
Synopsis
-INCLUDE 'sqlite3dbm.3' dbhandle = SQL3DBM_OPEN(file,flags,mode) SQL3DBM_CLOSE(dbhandle) SQL3DBM_STORE(dbhandle,key,datum,flags) datum = SQL3DBM_FETCH(dbhandle,key) SQL3DBM_DELETE(dbhandle,key) key = SQL3DBM_FIRSTKEY(dbhandle) key = SQL3DBM_NEXTKEY(dbhandle) SQL3DBM_ERRMSG(dbhandle)
Description
A DBM compatible interface for snobol4(1) using the sqlite3 embedded database engine, and allows concurrent access by multiple processes.
- SQL3DBM_OPEN
takes a filename (STRING), and ignores any additional arguments, and returns a database handle.
- SQL3DBM_CLOSE
takes a database handle and closes it.
- SQL3DBM_STORE
takes a database handle, a key, a value, and a flag, one of SQL3DBM_INSERT or SQL3DBM_REPLACE.
- SQL3DBM_FETCH
takes a database handle and a key and returns a datum (if any) stored with that key.
- SQL3DBM_DELETE
takes a database handle and a key and deletes the stored datum (if any).
- SQL3DBM_FIRSTKEY
takes a database handle and returns a database key.
- SQL3DBM_NEXTKEY
takes a database handle and returns a database key when called after SQL3DBM_FIRSTKEY.
- SQL3DBM_ERRMSG
takes a database handle and string for the last sqlite3 database error.
Compatibility
database compatible with Python sqlite3dbm
See Also
snobol4(1), snobol4dbm(3), sqlite3(1)
Author
Philip L. Budne