Re: [mv] Relational DB without SQL

[Eric Paul <epaul@spellbook.net>]

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At 10:36 AM 8/31/00 , you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from Stefan Hornburg 
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>Eric Paul <epaul@spellbook.net> writes:
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> > Is there any way to do relational-database type searches on text-based 
> data
> > files?  I have a customer who wants to sell replacement parts for their
> > products online.  I created the "products" table with a list of all the
> > replacement parts.  I then created another table with a list of the
> > products these parts go in.  Right now I can search the products database
> > with no problem, but I can't return fields from the secondary database.  I
> > tried adapting the code from the simple demo for reading from the 
> "cat.txt"
> > database, but it's not behaving the way I want.  Here's a snip of the code
> > I have:
> >
> > [loop prefix=master list="item-field sku]"]
>
>[ before item-field left out.
>
>Ciao
>         Racke

My bad, I had that as a long-line split in the file and didn't paste it 
right into the email program.  The line I have is

[loop prefix=master list="[item-field sku]"]

But this still is returning nothing.  Any other ideas?

Eric

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