Heres a small script that will add pipes to the end of your existing database.
IMPORTANT for some reason this board puts a space between the pipe | symbols below, so you will have to remove the spaces between ALL pipes | in the script, lines 3,4, and 8.
It will work fine, but I recommend you make an additional back up of your links.db file beforehand. (always good practise)
Change the path to perl to yours -upload it to the same directory as your other cgi`s i.e. search.cgi etc.
and chmod executable, copy your links.db into same directory (so your original in the data directory acts as backup)- when run from your browser it will create another file called links2.db and copies over your data and adds 5 pipes to the end of each record i.e.
print FILE2 "$_| | | | |\n"; or as many as you require just remove or add them, it can also add text if you want a new field to be all no`s or yes`s for all records.
Open your data file in a text editor check all is okay.
Rename it to links.db and place in your data directory.
Here it is..
Code:
#!/perl/bin/perl -w
open (FILE, "links.db") | | die $!;
open (FILE2, ">links2.db") | | die $!;
while (<FILE> ) {
chomp;
print FILE2 "$_| | | | |\n";
}
close (FILE);
close (FILE2);
hope that helps.
chmod
[This message has been edited by chmod (edited August 01, 1999).]
[This message has been edited by chmod (edited August 01, 1999).]
[This message has been edited by chmod (edited August 01, 1999).]
I guess you didn't look too hard.