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AnyData::Format::Fixed(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			       AnyData::Format::Fixed(3pm)

NAME
	AnyData::Format::Fixed - tiedhash & DBI/SQL access to Fixed length data

SYNOPSIS
	use AnyData;
	my $table = adHash( 'Fixed', $filename,'r',{pattern=>'A20 A2'} );
	while (my $row = each %$table) {
	    print $row->{name},"
" if $row->{country} =~ /us|mx|ca/;
	}
	# ... other tied hash operations

	OR

	use DBI
	my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:AnyData:');
	$dbh->func('table1','Fixed', $filename, {pattern=>'A20 A2'},'ad_catalog');
	my $hits = $dbh->selectall_arrayref( qq{
	    SELECT name FROM table1 WHERE country = 'us'
	});
	# ... other DBI/SQL operations

DESCRIPTION
       This is a parser for fixed length record files.	You must specify an unpack pattern listing the widths of the fields e.g. {pattern=>'A3 A7
       A20'}.  You can either supply the column names or let the module get them for you from the first line of the file.  In either case, they
       should be a comma separated string.

       Please refer to the documentation for AnyData.pm and DBD::AnyData.pm for further details.

AUTHOR &; COPYRIGHT
       copyright 2000, Jeff Zucker <jeff@vpservices.com> all rights reserved

perl v5.10.1							    2004-08-17					       AnyData::Format::Fixed(3pm)