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+.\" ========================================================================
+.\"
+.IX Title "AnyDBM_File 3perl"
+.TH AnyDBM_File 3perl 2024-01-12 "perl v5.38.2" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide"
+.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
+.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
+.if n .ad l
+.nh
+.SH NAME
+AnyDBM_File \- provide framework for multiple DBMs
+.PP
+NDBM_File, DB_File, GDBM_File, SDBM_File, ODBM_File \- various DBM implementations
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
+.Vb 1
+\& use AnyDBM_File;
+.Ve
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
+This module is a "pure virtual base class"\-\-it has nothing of its own.
+It's just there to inherit from one of the various DBM packages. It
+prefers ndbm for compatibility reasons with Perl 4, then Berkeley DB (See
+DB_File), GDBM, SDBM (which is always there\-\-it comes with Perl), and
+finally ODBM. This way old programs that used to use NDBM via \fBdbmopen()\fR
+can still do so, but new ones can reorder \f(CW@ISA:\fR
+.PP
+.Vb 2
+\& BEGIN { @AnyDBM_File::ISA = qw(DB_File GDBM_File NDBM_File) }
+\& use AnyDBM_File;
+.Ve
+.PP
+Having multiple DBM implementations makes it trivial to copy database formats:
+.PP
+.Vb 4
+\& use Fcntl; use NDBM_File; use DB_File;
+\& tie %newhash, \*(AqDB_File\*(Aq, $new_filename, O_CREAT|O_RDWR;
+\& tie %oldhash, \*(AqNDBM_File\*(Aq, $old_filename, 1, 0;
+\& %newhash = %oldhash;
+.Ve
+.SS "DBM Comparisons"
+.IX Subsection "DBM Comparisons"
+Here's a partial table of features the different packages offer:
+.PP
+.Vb 10
+\& odbm ndbm sdbm gdbm bsd\-db
+\& \-\-\-\- \-\-\-\- \-\-\-\- \-\-\-\- \-\-\-\-\-\-
+\& Linkage comes w/ perl yes yes yes yes yes
+\& Src comes w/ perl no no yes no no
+\& Comes w/ many unix os yes yes[0] no no no
+\& Builds ok on !unix ? ? yes yes ?
+\& Code Size ? ? small big big
+\& Database Size ? ? small big? ok[1]
+\& Speed ? ? slow ok fast
+\& FTPable no no yes yes yes
+\& Easy to build N/A N/A yes yes ok[2]
+\& Size limits 1k 4k 1k[3] none none
+\& Byte\-order independent no no no no yes
+\& Licensing restrictions ? ? no yes no
+.Ve
+.IP [0] 4
+.IX Item "[0]"
+on mixed universe machines, may be in the bsd compat library,
+which is often shunned.
+.IP [1] 4
+.IX Item "[1]"
+Can be trimmed if you compile for one access method.
+.IP [2] 4
+.IX Item "[2]"
+See DB_File.
+Requires symbolic links.
+.IP [3] 4
+.IX Item "[3]"
+By default, but can be redefined.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
+\&\fBdbm\fR\|(3), \fBndbm\fR\|(3), \fBDB_File\fR\|(3), perldbmfilter