Storing data

I have a little problem which is that my ISP doesn't provide any database support, like mySQL etc.

So I need to know which would be a good way to store data in a blank textfiles.

I have coded some scripts with Perl which are using textfiles, and different values are separated with a some kind of mark.

Like here...
id1||text1||etc
id2||text2||etc
id3||text3||ect

The problem when using this kind of data storing system is that someone can mess it up by typing, in this case, '||'.

Is there any good way to build a safe database (using a blank textfile) which cannot be messed up?

Thanks to all!

Yip just parse your user input and check for ||, replacing with some other odd string where necessary. Something really odd.

$str = str_replace("||", "%liberaceplaystennisontuesdays%", $str);

Then when you pull the data backout of the flatfile, reverse it:

$str = str_replace("%liberaceplaystennisontuesdays%", "||", $str);

The odds of someone typing something like "%liberaceplaystennisontuesdays%" are pretty slim I reckon.

By the way, you're ISP sucks... 🙂

adam

Ummm, that was the forum... 🙂

adam

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