Language question -- file = variable ?

[G. Matthew Rice]

You could also use memory mapping in C and friends:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory-mapped_file

--matt

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 11-08-16 10:41 AM, William Park wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is there a language which (natively or not) treats a filename like a
>> variable in memory?  For example, to increment a counter stored in a file,
>> you would write something like
>>         /tmp/counter = /tmp/counter + 1
>> which involves both read and write to a file.  If it were normal variable,
>> then it would involve read/write to a memory instead.
>>
>> Python is the closest I can think of.  But, you need to create a method
>> for read and another method for write.  And, typing more verbose than I
>> would like.
>>
> If the file was xml based you can parse it with any script language that
> supports xml parsing.
>
> In Ruby you can use active resource, which is part of ruby core, it allows
> you to access an xml file like a database.
>
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