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On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:23 PM, <Andy_Bach@[...].gov>  wrote:

>  > What i am trying to do is,i have to run multiple perl programmes all at
>  once
>  to change the contents of a text file. and the text file would contain 2
>  things. Test name and status.
> 
>  Yeah, I'd say this is more a computer science/methodology question, rather
>  than a perl code question.  Using a single flat file for this is probably
>  the least effective solution.  You'll be doing all the locks, access,
>  update work yourself and likely running into unexpected results. A database
>  (even something like sqlite) will do this much better


Boy, I couldn't agree with this more.  This really is a job for a database.

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