databases/p5-Fsdb 2.69nb6 NetBSD

FSDB is package of commands for manipulating flat-ASCII databases from shell scripts. FSDB is useful to process medium amounts of data (with very little data you'd do it by hand, with megabytes you might want a real database).

Fsdb was known as Jdb from 1991 to Oct. 2008.

Fsdb is very good at doing things like:

- extracting measurements from experimental output
- re-examining data to address different hypotheses
- joining data from different experiments
- eliminating/detecting outliers
- computing statistics on data (mean, confidence intervals,
	correlations, histograms)
- reformatting data for graphing programs

Rather than hand-code scripts to do each special case, FSDB provides higher-level functions. Although it's often easy throw together a custom script to do any single task, I believe that there are several advantages to using this library: it is higher-level than raw perl, control uses names intead of column numbers, it is self-documenting, and it is very robust (error cases, careful memory handling, etc.).