On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:46:53 +0100, Jens Rehsack <rehs...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > in an application (I call it App::Automated::Letter) I will process > some "csv databases" (OpenOffice.org/Excel exported files). I'd like > to allow the application to find the appropriate csv file (table name > for automated letter processing run will be specified per run or on > command line) in a list of directories (e.g. ['.', > '$HOME/Documents', > '$HOME/Letter', ...]). > > I'd like to point on the field of operation: desktop end users - > totally different from administrators, operators etc. :) > > Would anyone mind when I patch DBD::File to accept a list of > directories in f_dir and search for a matching db-file in this list? Why not just create a pool of database handles instead? > I thought about using an 'f_dir_list', too - but there're always users > who would try to specify both and than a behavior must exist for such > a situation. If the 'f_dir_list' is preferred - such a behavior must > be defined, too. > > Best regards, > Jens -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using 5.00307 through 5.12 and porting perl5.13.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23 and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.1, 11.0 .. 11.3 and AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
