Bryan S. Tyson tapped away at the keyboard with:
I have what I think should be a simple question regarding a text file.
The structure is like this example:
123.45 Ab123 Abub, Bob All My Favorite Stories
567.89 B45 Banks, Billy Best Loved Chemistry Experiments
Each group of 3 lines would be a record describing a book (call no., author, title).
I typically have 450-500 of these in a file. How can I make this file into a database? (Using Linux tools.)
It is a _database_. :-) You've just described the schema. For what purpose do you want to use the database? -- /"\ Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia \ / ASCII ribbon campaign | I'm a .signature virus! | X against HTML mail | Copy me into your ~/.signature| / \ and postings | to help me spread! |