[Gllug] Database reporting library

[Richard Cottrill]

Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, John Hearns wrote:
> 
> 
>>>	I am looking for a library or tool that takes a sql query, a 
>>>database (in this case postgres) and a document and merges the whole thing 
>>>together. 
>>>	Mail merge I think is the trick but I need to embed it in my app. 
>>>I was thinking Latex or Postscript may be the best way, 
>>>	Any Ideas?
>>> 
>>>
>>
>>http://reportman.sourceforge.net/
> 
> 
> If you want a library to embed in a C app then this one looks the likely 
> candidate to me.
> 
> I'm interested in it myself now.
> 
> Jason Clifford

Perl!

Use DBI/DBD and formats. I'll leave it as an excercise to the reader to 
see if they can manage it in one (manageable) line. ;)

This works very well for plain text, and may suffice for other documents.

Richard


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