Creating a Search Site !?!

[liju_thomas]

O.k. I am new to this so I am not sure what is kosher and what isn't.

I want to create a search engine, but I don't want to use a database just yet. I would like to see what the response to my site is going to be. So for the time being I am going to use TAB-DELIMITED text files. What language(from your experience) would you recommend to use that will enable the easiest
conversion to a database site?

TIA

[Del]

Greetings

Perl! http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif Perl's text handling capabilities are great to begin with, so a flat text database will work well. Then, when you're ready to move on to a database (I'm assuming mySQL), it shouldn't be very hard to whip up a small Perl script that would take the info from the text database, and dump it into a mySQL table (if you know anything about mySQL anyway, I sure don't... (I still don't wanna wait til May for the book)).

Del