sorry bout the cfg vs def thing ---brain thinking one thing and fingrers typing another....! Old timers disease.
Here's another way of looking at it
If I had the following
# Definition of your database file.
%db_def = (
ID => [0, 'numer', 5, 8, 1, '', ''],
Title => [1, 'alpha', 40, 75, 1, '', ''],
URL => [2, 'alpha', 40, 75, 1, 'http://', '^http|news|mailto|ftp'],
Date => [3, 'date', 15, 15, 1, \&get_date, ''],
Category => [4, 'alpha', 0, 150, 1, '', ''],
Description => [5, 'alpha', '100x6', 600, 0, '', ''],
'Contact Name' => [6, 'alpha', 40, 75, 1, '', ''],
'Contact Email' => [7, 'alpha', 40, 75, 1, '', '.+@.+\..+'],
Hits => [8, 'numer', 10, 10, 1, '0', '\d+'],
isNew => [9, 'alpha', 0, 5, 0, 'No', ''],
isPopular => [10, 'alpha', 0, 5, 0, 'No', ''],
Rating => [11, 'numer', 10, 10, 1, 0, '^[\d\.]+$'],
Votes => [12, 'numer', 10, 10, 1, 0, '^\d+$'],
ReceiveMail => [13, 'alpha', 10, 10, 1, 'Yes', 'No|Yes'],
and I did the following
# Definition of your database file.
%db_def = (
ID => [0, 'numer', 5, 8, 1, '', ''],
Title => [1, 'alpha', 40, 75, 1, '', ''],
URL => [2, 'alpha', 40, 75, 1, 'http://', '^http|news|mailto|ftp'],
Date => [3, 'date', 15, 15, 1, \&get_date, ''],
Category => [4, 'alpha', 0, 150, 1, '', ''],
AltCategories => [5, 'alpha', 0, 150, 1, '', ''],
Description => [6, 'alpha', '100x6', 600, 0, '', ''],
'Contact Name' => [7, 'alpha', 40, 75, 1, '', ''],
'Contact Email' => [8, 'alpha', 40, 75, 1, '', '.+@.+\..+'],
Hits => [9, 'numer', 10, 10, 1, '0', '\d+'],
isNew => [10, 'alpha', 0, 5, 0, 'No', ''],
isPopular => [12, 'alpha', 0, 5, 0, 'No', ''],
Rating => [13, 'numer', 10, 10, 1, 0, '^[\d\.]+$'],
Votes => [14, 'numer', 10, 10, 1, 0, '^\d+$'],
ReceiveMail => [15, 'alpha', 10, 10, 1, 'Yes', 'No|Yes'],
Here I have inserted AltCategories => [5, ...
and renumbered all fields below it.
What else would I have to do...?
I know that some of the "stuff" in links.def would need to be changed....that I would have to renumber the "Field Number of some important fields," "Field number to sort," "Field names to search on," etc,
and add to the database etc.
But what other implications are there of "inserting" instead of "appending" like below?????
# Definition of your database file.
%db_def = (
ID => [0, 'numer', 5, 8, 1, '', ''],
Title => [1, 'alpha', 40, 75, 1, '', ''],
URL => [2, 'alpha', 40, 75, 1, 'http://', '^http|news|mailto|ftp'],
Date => [3, 'date', 15, 15, 1, \&get_date, ''],
Category => [4, 'alpha', 0, 150, 1, '', ''],
Description => [5, 'alpha', '100x6', 600, 0, '', ''],
'Contact Name' => [6, 'alpha', 40, 75, 1, '', ''],
'Contact Email' => [7, 'alpha', 40, 75, 1, '', '.+@.+\..+'],
Hits => [8, 'numer', 10, 10, 1, '0', '\d+'],
isNew => [9, 'alpha', 0, 5, 0, 'No', ''],
isPopular => [10, 'alpha', 0, 5, 0, 'No', ''],
Rating => [11, 'numer', 10, 10, 1, 0, '^[\d\.]+$'],
Votes => [12, 'numer', 10, 10, 1, 0, '^\d+$'],
ReceiveMail => [13, 'alpha', 10, 10, 1, 'Yes', 'No|Yes'],
AltCategories => [14, 'alpha', 0, 150, 1, '', ''],
Here I have appended AltCategories => [14, ...
Thanks for the response!!!!
Gene