NAME

MLDBM::Easy - Provides NON-piecemeal access to MLDBM files

SYNOPSIS

use MLDBM::Easy;  # as a drop-in for MLDBM

DESCRIPTION

This module allows you to work with multi-dimensional databases, just like MLDBM, but it does work behind the scenes to allow you to treat the multi-dimensional database like a normal data structure. Basically, you don't need to use the piecemeal access that MLDBM required:

# old and busted
my $record = $db{some_key};
$record->[2] += 100;
$db{some_key} = $record;

# new hotness
$db{some_key}[2] += 100;

Of course, with this convenience comes a loss of speed. Deal with it.

SEE ALSO

Check MLDBM for all other documentation.

AUTHOR

Jeff japhy Pinyan, <japhy@pobox.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2004 by japhy

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.