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#
# dbutil.pm -- utility functions for writing to different databases
# Copyright (C) 2008  DL Consulting Ltd
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package dbutil;

use strict;


sub write_infodb_entry
{
    my $infodb_handle = shift(@_);
    my $infodb_key = shift(@_);
    my $infodb_map = shift(@_);

    &write_infodb_entry_gdbm($infodb_handle, $infodb_key, $infodb_map);
}

    
sub write_infodb_entry_gdbm
{
    my $infodb_handle = shift(@_);
    my $infodb_key = shift(@_);
    my $infodb_map = shift(@_);

    print $infodb_handle "[$infodb_key]\n";
    foreach my $infodb_value_key (keys(%$infodb_map))
    {
	foreach my $infodb_value (@{$infodb_map->{$infodb_value_key}})
	{
	    if ($infodb_value =~ /-{70,}/)
	    {
		# if value contains 70 or more hyphens in a row we need to escape them
		# to prevent txt2db from treating them as a separator
		$infodb_value =~ s/-/&\#045;/gi;
	    }
	    print $infodb_handle "<$infodb_value_key>" . $infodb_value . "\n";
	}
    }
    print $infodb_handle '-' x 70, "\n";
}


1;
