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From: H <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Creating files with testdata
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:13:33 -0400
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On March 10, 2025 5:09:46 PM GMT-04:00, H <[email protected]> wrote:
>On March 10, 2025 3:22:41 PM GMT-04:00, Francisco Olarte
><[email protected]> wrote:
>>On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 at 19:17, H <[email protected]> wrote:
>>...
>>> After entering my test data into the markdown file for the given
>test
>>scenario, I would then run an awk script or similar to create a SQL
>>file with the various CTE INSERT statements. Howevever, it gets
>complex
>>since I need to handle 1:N relationships between tables in the
>markdown
>>file...
>>> I hope the above outline is understandable and am interested in
>>comments and thoughts on my above approach.
>>
>>I do not think MD would be a good source format. Being a developer I
>>would recommend taking your favorite scripting language ( perl /
>>python / lua / js , whatever ), build a big object ( which can be
>>easily helped by some mini-functions to build a little DSL ) and then
>>spit sql from it ( for developemewnt it is normally better then using
>>whatever db connection your language has, as it leaves an
>>understandable sql script ).
>>
>>I have done this with perl for some projects, built a driver which
>>defined several helper functions, then dofile("xx.dat") which returned
>>a big hash and then a series of loops on the result to write the SQL
>>in whatever order was neccessary.
>>
>>Francisco Olarte.
>
>The plan is to use the same format for later adding information into
>the finished application. By the way, all information is text, either
>paragraphs, sentences or single words.

I am also contemplating using Pandoc to process the markdown file. Pandoc builds an AST which can then be processed as desired. Awk processes a file line-by-line which is not ideal.

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