Revision history for Tie-FieldVals
0.6202 Sun 30 November 2008
- (2008-11-30) * fixed problem with TODO file
0.6201 Sun 30 November 2008
- (2008-11-30) * a few more tweaks
- (2008-11-17) * Corrected tests that were calling perl
- Tweaked Build.PL
- (2007-12-16) revamped depot
0.62 Tue 16 August 2005
- (16 Aug 2005) added script
0.61 Mon 08 November 2004
- (8 Nov 2004) oh dear, forgot another one
- (8 Nov 2004) oops, needed to change support files
0.60 Mon 08 November 2004
- (7 Nov 2004) added hash2fv script
The script does a naieve conversion of an AutomatedArchive hash database file; it just copies the data Field by Field, which makes the most sense, but something I will have to keep in mind for later, when using such converted databases.
Also, as part of this, added set_from_hash in Tie::FieldVals::Row.
- (7 Nov 2004) made sort_records (in Tie::FieldVals::Select) more efficient
0.50 Sun 07 November 2004
- (7 Nov 2004) proper sub-classing
Now Tie::FieldVals::Select is a proper sub-class of Tie::FieldVals. Also renamed Tie::FieldVals::Join::Row to be Tie::FieldVals::Row::Join and made it a proper sub-class of Tie::FieldVals::Row.
0.40 Fri 05 November 2004
- (5 Nov 2004) changed accessing of row hashes
I realized that, when I was using them, there were really only two ways I wanted to access the Tie::FieldVals::Row hashes: either as a reference to an array, because I wanted to go through every multi-valued item one at a time; or as a single scalar value (such as when printing out or comparing values). Also because the $hash{$key=>$something} method of accessing things was annoying, because Perl kept on saying it was a syntax error, I simplified both FETCH and STORE operations for Tie::FieldVals::Row (and Tie::FieldVals::Join::Row).
Now there are three modes of FETCHing and two ways of STOREing.
The FETCH operation accepts:
- a simple key, which gives a simple (possibly joined) value
- a reference to a simple key, which gives a reference to an array
- a reference to a hash or array of two values, one of which is the key,
the other of which is the string with which to join multi-values.
The STORE operation only allows simple scalar keys, and accepts either a scalar or a reference to an array for the stored value.
0.31 Fri 05 November 2004
- (5 Nov 2004) tweaking documentation
0.30 Thu 04 November 2004
- (4 Nov 2004) improved sort is Nicer
Added two more sort types, "title" and "lastword". This now eliminates the need to "nice-ify" fields because they'd been reversed for sort-order considerations, such as authors with Lastname,Firstname (can now be sorted with a "lastword" sort) or titles starting with "The" or "A" can now be sorted with "title" sort (which ignores the initial "The" or "A").
- (4 Nov 2004) just tweaks
- (3 Nov 2004) added ability to create file if it doesn't exist
One needs to set the mode to O_RDWR|O_CREAT and to give the field names, if one is creating the file; the default setup is still for a file which already exists.
0.20 Tue 02 November 2004
- (2 Nov 2004) removed development support files from MANIFEST
- (2 Nov 2004) added file locking
Basically uses the file locking of Tie::File.
- (2 Nov 2004) improved documentation tweaks
0.10 Sun 31 October 2004
- (31 Oct 2004) added xml2fv script
- (31 Oct 2004) added fv2xml script
Not just the script but the tests for it.
- (31 Oct 2004) improving description
Added some more stuff to the DESCRIPTION comparing this to other kinds of data files.
0.01 Sun 31 October 2004
- (31 Oct 2004) added Join test
- (31 Oct 2004) updated boringfile
Set a separate boringfile so that it considers the perl build files to be boring.
- (30 Oct 2004) tweaking auto-build stuff
Setting the pre-build stuff, and auto-generating TODO and README.
- (30 Oct 2004) improved documentation
- (30 Oct 2004) tweaking tests
Removing some warnings and making safer.
- (29 Oct 2004) more tests and fix
Fixed Row so that numeric compares of empty strings are done as a zero. Added tests of simple functionality and selection.
- (29 Oct 2004) initial checkin
This is stuff extracted out of the GenRepAr suite, and made into independent modules.