Storing Data in GDBM

• The GDBM interface gives you a sort of persistent dictionary, i.e. values indexed by keys
• the keys maybe arbitrary virtual strings

declare
GDBM = {Link ['x-oz://contrib/gdbm']}
  DB = {GDBM.new create("DATA.db")}
DATA = ['Frank'#23#true 'Mary'#26#true 'John'#20#false]

Let's put the entries into the database using the name field as key:

for E in DATA do
   {GDBM.put E.1 E}
end