FlatFile "FlatFile" is a class for manipulating flat-file (plain text) databases. One first opens the database, obtaining a database object. Queries may be perfomed on the database object, yielding record objects, which can be queried to retrieve information from the database. If the database is writable, the objects can be updated, and the updates written back to the file. Subclasses of this module can be created to represent specific files, such as the Unix password file or the Account Management "db.list" file. INSTALLATION This is a Perl module distribution. It should be installed with whichever tool you use to manage your installation of Perl, e.g. any of cpanm . cpan . cpanp -i . Consult http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html for further instruction. Should you wish to install this module manually, the procedure is perl Makefile.PL make make test make install COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2006 by Mark Jason Dominus. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.