[ic] gdbm bug?

[Ed LaFrance]

At 08:17 AM 08/22/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> > Ed LaFrance wrote:
> > > Could be embedded carriage returns.  Try this (from the shell, in your
> > > products directory):
> > >
> > > perl -i -p -e 's/\r//g' posters.txt
> >
> > Thanks. But that didn't help. (GDBM file was rebuilt, but results seem
> > to be the same.)
>
>I examined the source text file with hex dump and the only special
>characters I see are tabs and line feeds -- no \r's at all. Everything
>looks correct.
>
>So, I added this to my catalog, trying to sidestep GDBM:
>
>   Database  posters  DB_FILE   1
>
>I deleted the gdbm files and restarted interchange. My posters.db file
>was created, so I guess I'm sidestepping gdbm.
>
>But I get the same incorrect results.
>
>I'm beginning to smell a bug in either (a) interchange, or (b) the perl
>modules that support interchange.
>

Or possibly your Perl installation or database source file.  Attach the 
latter in a reply so we can take a look.

- Ed L.



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