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=={{header|Perl}}==
<lang Perl>#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use feature qw{ say };

use JSON::PP;
use Time::Piece;

use constant {
NAME => 0,
CATEGORY => 1,
DATE => 2,
DB => 'simple-db',
};

my $operation = shift // "";

my %dispatch = (
n => \&add_new,
l => \&print_latest,
L => \&print_latest_for_categories,
a => \&print_all,
);

if ($dispatch{$operation}) {
$dispatch{$operation}->(@ARGV);
} else {
die "Invalid option. Use one of n, l, L, a.\n"
}

sub add_new {
my ($name, $category, $date) = @_;
my $db = eval { load() } || {};
if (defined $date) {
eval { 'Time::Piece'->strptime($date, '%Y-%m-%d'); 1 }
or die "Invalid date format: YYYY-MM-DD.\n";

} else {
$date //= localtime->ymd;
}

my @ids = keys %{ $db->{by_id} };
my $max_id = max(num => @ids) || 0;
$db->{by_id}{ ++$max_id } = [ $name, $category, $date ];
save($db);
}

sub print_latest {
build_indexes( my $db = load(), 0, 1 );
_print_latest($db);
}

sub _print_latest {
my ($db, $category) = @_;
my @dates = keys %{ $db->{by_date} };
@dates = grep {
grep $db->{by_id}{$_}[CATEGORY] eq $category,
@{ $db->{by_date}{$_} };
} @dates if defined $category;

my $last_date = max(str => @dates);
say for map $db->{by_id}{$_}[NAME],
grep ! defined $category
|| $db->{by_id}{$_}[CATEGORY] eq $category,
@{ $db->{by_date}{$last_date} };
}

sub max {
my $type = shift;
my $max = $_[0];
{ num => sub { $_ > $max },
str => sub { $_ gt $max},
}->{$type}->() and $max = $_
for @_[ 1 .. $#_ ];
return $max
}

sub print_latest_for_categories {
build_indexes( my $db = load(), 1, 1 );

for my $category (sort keys %{ $db->{by_category} }){
say "* $category";
_print_latest($db, $category);
}
}

sub print_all {
build_indexes( my $db = load(), 0, 1 );

for my $date (sort keys %{ $db->{by_date} }) {
for my $id (@{ $db->{by_date}{$date} }) {
say $db->{by_id}{$id}[NAME];
}
}
}

sub load {
open my $in, '<', DB or die "Can't open database: $!\n";
local $/;
return { by_id => decode_json(<$in>) };
}

sub save {
my ($db) = @_;
open my $out, '>', DB or die "Can't save database: $!\n";
print {$out} encode_json($db->{by_id});
close $out;
}

sub build_indexes {
my ($db, $by_category, $by_date) = @_;
for my $id (keys %{ $db->{by_id} }) {
push @{ $db->{by_category}{ $db->{by_id}{$id}[CATEGORY] } }, $id
if $by_category;
push @{ $db->{by_date}{ $db->{by_id}{$id}[DATE] } }, $id
if $by_date;
}
}</lang>
Sample session<pre> ~ $ db.pl n 'Donald Trump' Republican 2017-01-20
~ $ db.pl n 'Barack Obama' Democratic 2009-01-20
~ $ db.pl n 'Bill Clinton' Democratic 1993-01-20
~ $ db.pl n 'George W. Bush' Republican 2001-01-20
~ $ db.pl a
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Donald Trump
~ $ db.pl l
Donald Trump
~ $ db.pl L
* Democratic
Barack Obama
* Republican
Donald Trump</pre>


=={{header|Phix}}==
=={{header|Phix}}==

Revision as of 20:55, 17 February 2018

Task
Simple database
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
Task

Write a simple tool to track a small set of data.

The tool should have a command-line interface to enter at least two different values.

The entered data should be stored in a structured format and saved to disk.

It does not matter what kind of data is being tracked.   It could be a collection (CDs, coins, baseball cards, books), a diary, an electronic organizer (birthdays/anniversaries/phone numbers/addresses), etc.


You should track the following details:

  • A description of the item. (e.g., title, name)
  • A category or tag (genre, topic, relationship such as “friend” or “family”)
  • A date (either the date when the entry was made or some other date that is meaningful, like the birthday); the date may be generated or entered manually
  • Other optional fields


The command should support the following Command-line arguments to run:

  • Add a new entry
  • Print the latest entry
  • Print the latest entry for each category
  • Print all entries sorted by a date


The category may be realized as a tag or as structure (by making all entries in that category subitems)

The file format on disk should be human readable, but it need not be standardized.   A natively available format that doesn't need an external library is preferred.   Avoid developing your own format if you can use an already existing one.   If there is no existing format available, pick one of:


Related task



Bracmat

This is a rather minimal solution. The program is run from the command line of the operating system, in this example the Windows command prompt. The program is stored in a file called 'sdb': <lang bracmat> whl ' ( arg$:?command

 & ( get'db
   | (db=1)&lst$(db,db,NEW)
   )
 &   !command
   : (   add
       & :?name:?tag:?date
       &   whl
         ' ( arg$:?argmnt
           & arg$:?value
           &   (!argmnt.!value)
             : ( (title|name.?name)
               | (category|tag.?tag)
               | (date.?date)
               )
           )
       & (   !name:~
           & !tag:~
           & !date:~
           & (   !db:?*!tag^(?+(!date.!name)+?)*?
               & out$"This record already exists"
             |   !tag^(!date.!name)*!db:?db
               & lst$(db,db,NEW)
             )
         | out$"invalid data"
         )
     |   latest
       & :?date
       & nothing found:?latest
       & (   !db
           :   ?
             *   ?tag
               ^ ( ?
                 + ( (>!date:?date.?name)
                   & (!name,!tag,!date):?latest
                   & ~
                   )
                 + ?
                 )
             * ?
         | out$!latest
         )
     |   latest/category
       & :?date:?latests:?latest
       & (   !db
           :   ?
             *   ( ?tag
                 & !latests !latest:?latests
                 & :?latest:?date
                 )
               ^ ( ?
                 + ( (>!date:?date.?name)
                   & (!name,!tag,!date):?latest
                   & ~
                   )
                 + ?
                 )
             * ?
         | !latests !latest:?latests&out$!latests
         )
     |   sorted
       & 0:?sorted
       & (   !db
           :   ?
             *   ?tag
               ^ ( ?
                 + ( (?date.?name)
                   & (!date.!name,!tag,!date)+!sorted:?sorted
                   & ~
                   )
                 + ?
                 )
             * ?
         |   whl
           ' (!sorted:(?.?row)+?sorted&out$!row)
         )
     )
 );

</lang> First we add some records, a some ships that arrived at the harbour in Rotterdam today.

bracmat "get$sdb" add name "CORONA BULKER" tag "BULK CARRIER" date "2014.10.21.04:00"
bracmat "get$sdb" add name "FPMC 21" tag "CHEMICAL TANKER" date "2014.10.15.12:00"
bracmat "get$sdb" add name "CHINA PROGRESS" tag "BULK CARRIER" date "2014.10.13.22:00"
bracmat "get$sdb" add name "FAIRCHEM YUKA" tag "CHEMICAL TANKER" date "2014.10.13.12:00"
bracmat "get$sdb" add name "NAVE COSMOS" tag "CHEMICAL TANKER" date "2014.10.13.10:00"
bracmat "get$sdb" add name "GOLDEN ICE" tag "BULK CARRIER" date "2014.10.10.12:00"
bracmat "get$sdb" add name "GHAZAL" tag "CRUDE OIL" date "2014.10.10.12:00"
bracmat "get$sdb" add name "HS MEDEA" tag "CRUDE OIL" date "2014.10.10.02:00"

Instead of 'name' you can use 'title' and instead of 'tag' you can use 'category'. The date has to be year first and day last, followed by time information if you like. No attempt is made to validate the date/time. Now the queries:

prompt> bracmat "get$sdb" latest
CORONA BULKER,BULK CARRIER,2014.10.21.04:00

prompt> bracmat "get$sdb" latest/category
  (CORONA BULKER,BULK CARRIER,2014.10.21.04:00)
  (FPMC 21,CHEMICAL TANKER,2014.10.15.12:00)
  (GHAZAL,CRUDE OIL,2014.10.10.12:00)

prompt> bracmat "get$sdb" sorted
HS MEDEA,CRUDE OIL,2014.10.10.02:00
GHAZAL,CRUDE OIL,2014.10.10.12:00
GOLDEN ICE,BULK CARRIER,2014.10.10.12:00
NAVE COSMOS,CHEMICAL TANKER,2014.10.13.10:00
FAIRCHEM YUKA,CHEMICAL TANKER,2014.10.13.12:00
CHINA PROGRESS,BULK CARRIER,2014.10.13.22:00
FPMC 21,CHEMICAL TANKER,2014.10.15.12:00
CORONA BULKER,BULK CARRIER,2014.10.21.04:00

The database file 'db' looks like this:

db= "BULK CARRIER"
  ^ ( ("2014.10.10.12:00"."GOLDEN ICE")
    + ("2014.10.13.22:00"."CHINA PROGRESS")
    + ("2014.10.21.04:00"."CORONA BULKER")
    )
*   "CHEMICAL TANKER"
  ^ ( ("2014.10.13.10:00"."NAVE COSMOS")
    + ("2014.10.13.12:00"."FAIRCHEM YUKA")
    + ("2014.10.15.12:00"."FPMC 21")
    )
* "CRUDE OIL"^(("2014.10.10.02:00"."HS MEDEA")+("2014.10.10.12:00".GHAZAL));

Use is made of Bracmat's automatic normalization of algebraic formula to turn the data into a hierarchical structure, with the tag as the top level and the date/time immediately below that level.

C

A simple database in C with some error checking, even. A quick test with Valgrind revealed no obvious memory leaks. The following data was used for testing. -> database.csv

"Soon Rising","Dee","Lesace","10-12-2000","New Hat Press" 
"Brave Chicken","Tang","Owe","04-01-2008","Nowhere Press" 
"Aardvark Point","Dee","Lesace","5-24-2001","New Hat Press" 
"Bat Whisperer, The","Tang","Owe","01-03-2004","Nowhere Press" 
"Treasure Beach","Argus","Jemky","09-22-1999","Lancast" 

<lang C>#include <stdio.h>

  1. include <stdlib.h> /* malloc */
  2. include <string.h> /* strlen */
  3. define _XOPEN_SOURCE /* requred for time functions */
  4. define __USE_XOPEN
  5. include <time.h>
  6. define DB "database.csv" /* database name */
  7. define TRY(a) if (!(a)) {perror(#a);exit(1);}
  8. define TRY2(a) if((a)<0) {perror(#a);exit(1);}
  9. define FREE(a) if(a) {free(a);a=NULL;}
  10. define sort_by(foo) \

static int by_##foo (const void*p1, const void*p2) { \

   return strcmp ((*(const pdb_t*)p1)->foo, (*(const pdb_t*)p2)->foo); }

typedef struct db {

   char title[26];
   char first_name[26];
   char last_name[26];
   time_t date;
   char publ[100];
   struct db *next;

} db_t,*pdb_t; typedef int (sort)(const void*, const void*); enum {CREATE,PRINT,TITLE,DATE,AUTH,READLINE,READ,SORT,DESTROY}; static pdb_t dao (int cmd, FILE *f, pdb_t db, sort sortby); static char *time2str (time_t *time); static time_t str2time (char *date); /* qsort callbacks */ sort_by(last_name); sort_by(title); static int by_date(pdb_t *p1, pdb_t *p2); /* main */ int main (int argc, char **argv) {

   char buf[100];
   const char *commands[]={"-c", "-p", "-t", "-d", "-a", NULL};
   db_t db;
   db.next=NULL;
   pdb_t dblist;
   int i;
   FILE *f;
   TRY (f=fopen(DB,"a+"));
   if (argc<2) {

usage: printf ("Usage: %s [commands]\n"

       "-c  Create new entry.\n"
       "-p  Print the latest entry.\n"
       "-t  Print all entries sorted by title.\n"
       "-d  Print all entries sorted by date.\n"
       "-a  Print all entries sorted by author.\n",argv[0]);
       fclose (f);
       return 0;
   }
   for (i=0;commands[i]&&strcmp(argv[1],commands[i]);i++);
   switch (i) {
       case CREATE:
       printf("-c  Create a new entry.\n");
       printf("Title           :");if((scanf(" %25[^\n]",db.title     ))<0)break;
       printf("Author Firstname:");if((scanf(" %25[^\n]",db.first_name))<0)break;
       printf("Author Lastname :");if((scanf(" %25[^\n]",db.last_name ))<0)break;
       printf("Date 10-12-2000 :");if((scanf(" %10[^\n]",buf          ))<0)break;
       printf("Publication     :");if((scanf(" %99[^\n]",db.publ      ))<0)break;
       db.date=str2time (buf);
       dao (CREATE,f,&db,NULL);
       break;
       case PRINT:
       printf ("-p  Print the latest entry.\n");
       while (!feof(f)) dao (READLINE,f,&db,NULL);
       dao (PRINT,f,&db,NULL);
       break;
       case TITLE:
       printf ("-t  Print all entries sorted by title.\n");
       dblist = dao (READ,f,&db,NULL);
       dblist = dao (SORT,f,dblist,by_title);
       dao (PRINT,f,dblist,NULL);
       dao (DESTROY,f,dblist,NULL);
       break;
       case DATE:
       printf ("-d  Print all entries sorted by date.\n");
       dblist = dao (READ,f,&db,NULL);
       dblist = dao (SORT,f,dblist,(int (*)(const void *,const  void *)) by_date);
       dao (PRINT,f,dblist,NULL);
       dao (DESTROY,f,dblist,NULL);
       break;
       case AUTH:
       printf ("-a  Print all entries sorted by author.\n");
       dblist = dao (READ,f,&db,NULL);
       dblist = dao (SORT,f,dblist,by_last_name);
       dao (PRINT,f,dblist,NULL);
       dao (DESTROY,f,dblist,NULL);
       break;
       default: {
           printf ("Unknown command: %s.\n",strlen(argv[1])<10?argv[1]:"");
           goto usage;
   }   }
   fclose (f);
   return 0;

} /* Data Access Object (DAO) */ static pdb_t dao (int cmd, FILE *f, pdb_t in_db, sort sortby) {

   pdb_t *pdb=NULL,rec=NULL,hd=NULL;
   int i=0,ret;
   char buf[100];
   switch (cmd) {
       case CREATE:
       fprintf (f,"\"%s\",",in_db->title);
       fprintf (f,"\"%s\",",in_db->first_name);
       fprintf (f,"\"%s\",",in_db->last_name);
       fprintf (f,"\"%s\",",time2str(&in_db->date));
       fprintf (f,"\"%s\" \n",in_db->publ);
       break;
       case PRINT:
       for (;in_db;i++) {
           printf ("Title       : %s\n",     in_db->title);
           printf ("Author      : %s %s\n",  in_db->first_name, in_db->last_name);
           printf ("Date        : %s\n",     time2str(&in_db->date));
           printf ("Publication : %s\n\n",   in_db->publ);
           if (!((i+1)%3)) {
               printf ("Press Enter to continue.\n");
               ret = scanf ("%*[^\n]");
               if (ret<0) return rec; /* handle EOF */
               else getchar();
           }
           in_db=in_db->next;
       }
       break;
       case READLINE:
       if((fscanf(f," \"%[^\"]\",",in_db->title     ))<0)break;
       if((fscanf(f," \"%[^\"]\",",in_db->first_name))<0)break;
       if((fscanf(f," \"%[^\"]\",",in_db->last_name ))<0)break;
       if((fscanf(f," \"%[^\"]\",",buf              ))<0)break;
       if((fscanf(f," \"%[^\"]\" ",in_db->publ      ))<0)break;
       in_db->date=str2time (buf);
       break;
       case READ:
       while (!feof(f)) {
           dao (READLINE,f,in_db,NULL);
           TRY (rec=malloc(sizeof(db_t)));
           *rec=*in_db; /* copy contents */
           rec->next=hd;/* to linked list */
           hd=rec;i++;
       }
       if (i<2) {
           puts ("Empty database. Please create some entries.");
           fclose (f);
           exit (0);
       }
       break;
       case SORT:
       rec=in_db;
       for (;in_db;i++) in_db=in_db->next;
       TRY (pdb=malloc(i*sizeof(pdb_t)));
       in_db=rec;
       for (i=0;in_db;i++) {
           pdb[i]=in_db;
           in_db=in_db->next;
       }
       qsort (pdb,i,sizeof in_db,sortby);
       pdb[i-1]->next=NULL;
       for (i=i-1;i;i--) {
           pdb[i-1]->next=pdb[i];
       }
       rec=pdb[0];
       FREE (pdb);
       pdb=NULL;
       break;
       case DESTROY: {
           while ((rec=in_db)) {
               in_db=in_db->next;
               FREE (rec);
   }   }   }
   return rec;

} /* convert numeric time to date string */ static char *time2str (time_t *time) {

   static char buf[255];
   struct tm *ptm;
   ptm=localtime (time);
   strftime(buf, 255, "%m-%d-%Y", ptm);
   return buf;

} /* convert date string to numeric time */ static time_t str2time (char *date) {

   struct tm tm;
   memset (&tm, 0, sizeof(struct tm));
   strptime(date, "%m-%d-%Y", &tm);
   return mktime(&tm);

} /* sort by date callback for qsort */ static int by_date (pdb_t *p1, pdb_t *p2) {

   if ((*p1)->date < (*p2)->date) {
       return -1;
   }
   else return ((*p1)->date > (*p2)->date);

}</lang>

COBOL

This is a souped-up version of the task from Take notes on the command line. It stores the current date, a tag, a title and a note as an entry in a file. The database produced is not particularly human-readable or easy to modify, but it is in a well-structured format.

Works with: OpenCOBOL

<lang cobol> IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.

      PROGRAM-ID. simple-database.
      ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
      INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION.
      FILE-CONTROL.
          SELECT OPTIONAL database-file ASSIGN Database-Path
              ORGANIZATION INDEXED
              ACCESS SEQUENTIAL
              RECORD KEY data-title
              ALTERNATE RECORD KEY data-tag
                  WITH DUPLICATES
              ALTERNATE RECORD KEY date-added
                  WITH DUPLICATES
              FILE STATUS file-status
              .
      DATA DIVISION.
      FILE SECTION.
      FD  database-file.
      01  database-record.
          *> Date is in YYYYMMDD format.
          03  date-added          PIC 9(8).
          03  data-tag            PIC X(20).
          03  data-title          PIC X(50).
          03  data-contents       PIC X(200).
          *> Adding extra space is considered good style so the record
          *> can be expanded in the future.
          03  FILLER              PIC X(50).
      WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
      78  Database-Path           VALUE "database.dat".
      01  file-status             PIC XX.
          88  file-ok             VALUE "00".
          88  duplicate-key       VALUE "22".
          88  key-not-found       VALUE "23".
      01  num-args                PIC 99.
      01  action                  PIC XX.
          88  create-entry        VALUE "-c".
          88  remove-entry        VALUE "-r".
          88  find-entry          VALUE "-f".
          88  print-latest        VALUE "-l".
          88  print-database      VALUES "-a", "-d", "-t".
          *> Printed by title.
          88  print-by-title      VALUE "-a".
          88  print-by-date       VALUE "-d".
          88  print-by-tag        VALUE "-t".
          88  print-help          VALUES "-h", SPACES.
      01  read-direction-flag     PIC X VALUE SPACE.
          88  read-backwards      VALUE "B".
      01  edited-date             PIC 9(4)/99/99.
      PROCEDURE DIVISION.
      DECLARATIVES.
      database-file-error SECTION.
          USE AFTER ERROR ON database-file
          DISPLAY "An error has occurred while using " Database-Path
              ". Error no. " file-status
          DISPLAY "The program will terminate."
          CLOSE database-file
          GOBACK
          .
      END DECLARATIVES.
      main-line.
          DISPLAY 1 UPON ARGUMENT-NUMBER
          ACCEPT action FROM ARGUMENT-VALUE
          ACCEPT num-args FROM ARGUMENT-NUMBER
          EVALUATE TRUE
              WHEN create-entry
                  IF num-args >= 4
                      PERFORM write-entry
                  ELSE
                      DISPLAY "-a requires arguments to enter in the "
                          "database. See help (-h) for details."
                  END-IF
              WHEN remove-entry
                  IF num-args >= 2
                      PERFORM delete-entry
                  ELSE
                      DISPLAY "-r requires the title of the entry to "
                          "delete."
                  END-IF
              WHEN find-entry
                  IF num-args >= 2
                      PERFORM display-specified-entry
                  ELSE
                      DISPLAY "-f requires the title of the entry to "
                          "find."
                  END-IF
              WHEN print-latest
                  PERFORM show-latest
              WHEN print-database
                  PERFORM show-database
              WHEN print-help
                  PERFORM show-general-help
              WHEN OTHER
                  DISPLAY action " is not a valid option."
          END-EVALUATE
          
          GOBACK
          .
      write-entry.
          OPEN EXTEND database-file
          DISPLAY 2 UPON ARGUMENT-NUMBER
          ACCEPT data-tag FROM ARGUMENT-VALUE
          DISPLAY 3 UPON ARGUMENT-NUMBER
          ACCEPT data-title FROM ARGUMENT-VALUE
          IF data-title = SPACES
              DISPLAY "The title cannot be blank."
              PERFORM close-and-terminate
          END-IF
          DISPLAY 4 UPON ARGUMENT-NUMBER
          ACCEPT data-contents FROM ARGUMENT-VALUE
          ACCEPT date-added FROM DATE YYYYMMDD
          WRITE database-record
              INVALID KEY
                  IF duplicate-key
                      DISPLAY "An entry in the database already has "
                          "that title. Please choose a different "
                          "title or remove the entry."
                  ELSE
                      PERFORM database-file-error
                  END-IF
          END-WRITE
          PERFORM close-database
          .
      delete-entry.
          PERFORM get-title-arg
          OPEN I-O database-file
          PERFORM read-title
          DELETE database-file
          PERFORM close-database
          .
      display-specified-entry.
          PERFORM get-title-arg
          OPEN INPUT database-file
          PERFORM read-title
          PERFORM show-record
          PERFORM close-database
          .
      get-title-arg.
          DISPLAY 2 UPON ARGUMENT-NUMBER
          ACCEPT data-title FROM ARGUMENT-VALUE
          .
      read-title.
          START database-file KEY IS = data-title
              INVALID KEY
                  IF key-not-found
                      DISPLAY "An entry with that title was not found."
                      PERFORM close-and-terminate
                  ELSE
                      PERFORM database-file-error
                  END-IF
          END-START
          READ database-file
          .
      close-and-terminate.
           PERFORM close-database
           GOBACK
           .
      show-latest.
          OPEN INPUT database-file
          PERFORM start-at-last-date
          READ database-file
          PERFORM show-record
          PERFORM close-database
          .
      show-database.
          OPEN INPUT database-file
          EVALUATE TRUE
              WHEN print-by-title
                  *> Primary key is the title.
                  CONTINUE
              WHEN print-by-tag
                  MOVE LOW-VALUES TO data-tag
                  START database-file KEY IS > data-tag
              WHEN print-by-date
                  PERFORM start-at-last-date
                  SET read-backwards TO TRUE
          END-EVALUATE
          PERFORM FOREVER
              *> The problem with statements instead of functions...
              IF NOT read-backwards
                  READ database-file NEXT
                      AT END
                          EXIT PERFORM
                  END-READ
              ELSE
                  READ database-file PREVIOUS
                      AT END
                          EXIT PERFORM
                  END-READ
              END-IF
              PERFORM show-record
              DISPLAY SPACE
          END-PERFORM
          PERFORM close-database
          .
      start-at-last-date.
          MOVE HIGH-VALUES TO date-added
          START database-file KEY IS < date-added
          .
      close-database.
          CLOSE database-file
          .
      show-record.
          MOVE date-added TO edited-date
          DISPLAY "Date added: " edited-date " Tag: " data-tag
          DISPLAY "Title: " data-title
          DISPLAY "Contents:"
          DISPLAY "  " FUNCTION TRIM(data-contents)
          .
      show-general-help.
          DISPLAY "Help: Possible options are:"
          DISPLAY "  -a - Show all the entries (sorted by title)."
          DISPLAY "  -c - Create a new entry in the database. -c needs"
              " further arguments in this format:"
          DISPLAY '    "tag" "title" "content"'
          DISPLAY "    Max argument sizes (in characters): tag - 20, "
              "title - 50, content - 200"
          DISPLAY "    The title must be unique and not be blank."
          DISPLAY "  -d - Show all the entries sorted by date added."
          DISPLAY "  -f - Finds and displays entry with the title "
              "provided. The title should be specified as shown for "
              "-c."
          DISPLAY "  -h - Show this help menu."
          DISPLAY "  -l - Show the latest entry."
          DISPLAY "  -r - Remove the entry with the title provided. "
              "The title should be specified as shown for -c."
          DISPLAY "  -t - Show all the entries sorted by tag."
          .</lang>

Sample session:

$ ./database -c "Reminder" "Bob's Birthday" "Buy birthday present for Bob."
$ ./database -c "Wishlist" "Beethoven" "Beethoven's Ode to Joy"
$ ./database -c "Reminder" "Add to Simple Database" "Add brainf*** example for Simple Database on Rosetta Code."
...
$ ./database -f "Mozart"
An entry with that title was not found.
$ ./database -t
Date added: 2013/08/13 Tag: Reminder            
Title: Bob's Birthday                                    
Contents:
  Buy birthday present for Bob.
 
Date added: 2013/08/13 Tag: Reminder            
Title: Add to Simple Database                            
Contents:
  Add brainf*** example for Simple Database on Rosetta Code.
 
Date added: 2013/08/13 Tag: Wishlist            
Title: Beethoven                                         
Contents:
  Beethoven's Ode to Joy

$ ./database -r "Beethoven"
$ ./database -l
Date added: 2013/08/13 Tag: Reminder            
Title: Add to Simple Database                            
Contents:
  Add brainf*** example for Simple Database on Rosetta Code.
$

Common Lisp

Tested with Common Lisp. (Save the code below as db.lisp)

<lang lisp>(defvar *db* nil)

(defvar *db-cat* (make-hash-table :test 'equal))

(defvar *db-file* "db.txt")

(defstruct item

 "this is the unit of data stored/displayed in *db*"
 (title " ")
 (category "default")
 (date (progn (get-universal-time))))

(defun set-category(new-item)

 (setf (gethash (item-category new-item) *db-cat*) 't))

(defun find-item-in-db (&optional category)

 (if (null category)
     (car *db*)
   (find category *db* :key #'item-category :test #'string=)))

(defun scan-category ()

 "scan categories from an existing database -- after reading it from disk"
 (dolist (itm *db*) (set-category itm)))

(defun pr-univ-time (utime)

 (multiple-value-bind
  (second minute hour date month year day-of-week dst-p tz)
  (decode-universal-time utime)
  (declare (ignore day-of-week dst-p tz))
  (format nil "~4,'0d-~2,'0d-~2,'0d ~2,'0d:~2,'0d:~2,'0d" year month date hour minute second)))

(defun pr (&optional (item (find-item-in-db)) (stream t))

 "print an item"
 (when item
   (format stream "~a: (~a) (~a)~%"

(item-title item) (item-category item) (pr-univ-time (item-date item)))))

(defun pr-per-category ()

 "print the latest item from each category"
 (loop for k being the hash-keys in *db-cat*

do (pr (find-item-in-db k))))

(defun pr-all ()

 "print all the items, *db* is sorted by time."
 (dolist (itm *db*)  (pr itm)))

(defun pr-all-categories (&optional (stream t))

 (loop for k being the hash-keys in *db-cat*
      do (format stream "(~a) " k)))
 

(defun insert-item (item)

 "insert item into database in a time sorted list. okay for a small list, as per spec."
 (let ((first-item (car *db*)) (new-itm item))
   (set-category new-itm)
   (push new-itm *db*)
   (when (and first-item (>= (item-date new-itm) (item-date first-item)))
     (setf *db* (sort *db* #'> :key #'item-date)))
   *db*))

(defun read-db-from-file (&optional (file *db-file*))

 (with-open-file (in file :if-does-not-exist nil)

(when in (with-standard-io-syntax (setf *db* (read in))) (scan-category))))

(defun save-db-to-file (&optional (file *db-file*))

 (with-open-file (out file :direction :output :if-exists :supersede)

(with-standard-io-syntax (print *db* out))))

(defun del-db ()

 (setf *db* nil)
 (save-db-to-file))

(defun del-item (itm)

 (read-db-from-file)
 (setf *db* (remove itm *db* :key #'item-title :test #'string=))
 (save-db-to-file))

(defun add-item-to-db (args)

 (read-db-from-file)
 (insert-item (make-item :title (first args) :category (second args)))
 (save-db-to-file))

(defun help-menu ()

 (format t "clisp db.lisp ~{~15T~a~^~% ~}"

'("delete <item-name> ------------------- delete an item" "delete-all --------------------------- delete the database"

           "insert <item-name> <item-category> ---  insert an item with its category"

"show --------------------------------- shows the latest inserted item" "show-categories ---------------------- show all categories" "show-all ----------------------------- show all items" "show-per-category -------------------- show the latest item per category")))

(defun db-cmd-run (args)

 (cond ((and (> (length args) 1) (equal (first args) "delete"))

(del-item (second args))) ((equal (first args) "delete-all") (del-db)) ((and (> (length args) 2) (equal (first args) "insert")) (add-item-to-db (rest args))) ((equal (first args) "show") (read-db-from-file) (pr)) ((equal (first args) "show-categories") (read-db-from-file) (pr-all-categories))

       ((equal (first args) "show-all") (read-db-from-file) (pr-all))
       ((equal (first args) "show-per-category") (read-db-from-file) (pr-per-category))
       (t (help-menu))))
modified https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Command-line_arguments#Common_Lisp

(defun db-argv ()

 (or
  #+clisp ext:*args*
  #+sbcl (cdr sb-ext:*posix-argv*)
  #+allegro (cdr (sys:command-line-arguments))
  #+lispworks (cdr sys:*line-arguments-list*)
  nil))

(db-cmd-run (db-argv))</lang>


Help menu:

$ clisp db.lisp
clisp db.lisp delete <item-name> -------------------  delete an item
              delete-all ---------------------------  delete the database
              insert <item-name> <item-category> ---  insert an item with its category
              show ---------------------------------  shows the latest inserted item
              show-categories ----------------------  show all categories
              show-all -----------------------------  show all items
              show-per-category --------------------  show the latest item per category

Here are a few steps to add a few titles, and their categories:

$ clisp db.lisp insert "title-vinyl-1" "vinyl"
$ clisp db.lisp insert "title-cd-1" "cd"
$ clisp db.lisp insert "title-dvd-1" "dvd"
$ clisp db.lisp insert "title-tape-1" "tape"
$ clisp db.lisp insert "title-tape-2" "tape"

Here is the very latest entry in the db:

$ clisp db.lisp show
title-tape-2: (tape) (2017-04-04 20:19:06)

Here is a (sorted time wise) list of all the entries:

$ clisp db.lisp show-all
title-tape-2: (tape) (2017-04-04 20:19:06)
title-tape-1: (tape) (2017-04-04 20:19:00)
title-dvd-1: (dvd) (2017-04-04 20:18:55)
title-cd-1: (cd) (2017-04-04 20:18:48)
title-vinyl-1: (vinyl) (2017-04-04 20:18:41)

Here is the latest entry for each category:

$ clisp db.lisp show-per-category
title-vinyl-1: (vinyl) (2017-04-04 20:18:41)
title-cd-1: (cd) (2017-04-04 20:18:48)
title-dvd-1: (dvd) (2017-04-04 20:18:55)
title-tape-2: (tape) (2017-04-04 20:19:06)

Here is the list of all categories:

$ clisp db.lisp show-categories
(vinyl) (cd) (dvd) (tape) 

To delete an entry:

$ clisp db.lisp delete "title-tape-2"

To delete all entries:

$ clisp db.lisp delete-all

D

<lang d>import std.stdio, std.algorithm, std.string, std.conv, std.array,

      std.file, std.csv, std.datetime;

private {

   immutable filename = "simdb.csv";
   struct Item {
       string name, date, category;
   }
   void addItem(in string[] item) {
       if (item.length < 3)
           return printUsage();
       auto db = load();
       const date = (cast(DateTime)Clock.currTime).toISOExtString;
       const cat = (item.length == 4) ? item[3] : "none";
       db ~= Item(item[2], date, cat);
       store(db);
   }
   void printLatest(in string[] a) {
      auto db = load();
      if (db.empty)
          return writeln("No entries in database.");
      db.sort!q{ a.date > b.date };
      if (a.length == 3) {
          foreach (item; db)
              if (item.category == a[2])
                  writefln("%s, %s, %s", item.tupleof);
      } else {
          writefln("%s, %s, %s", db[0].tupleof);
      }
   }
   void printAll() {
       auto db = load();
       if (db.empty)
           return writeln("No entries in database.");
       db.sort!q{ a.date < b.date };
       foreach (item; db)
           writefln("%s, %s, %s", item.tupleof);
   }
   Item[] load() {
       Item[] db;
       if (filename.exists && filename.isFile) {
           try {
               const text = filename.readText;
               if (!text.empty)
                   db = csvReader!Item(text).array;
           } catch (CSVException e) {
               writeln(e.msg);
           }
       }
       return db;
   }
   void store(in Item[] db) {
       auto f = File(filename, "w+");
       foreach (item; db)
           f.writefln("%s,%s,%s", item.tupleof);
   }
   void printUsage() {
       writeln(

`Usage:

 simdb cmd [categoryName]
 add     add item, followed by optional category
 latest  print last added item(s), followed by optional category
 all     print all
 For instance: add "some item name" "some category name"`);
   }

}

void main(in string[] args) {

   if (args.length < 2 || args.length > 4)
       return printUsage();
   switch (args[1].toLower) {
       case "add":    addItem(args);     break;
       case "latest": printLatest(args); break;
       case "all":    printAll();        break;
       default:       printUsage();      break;
   }

}</lang>

Output:
C:\>simdb add item1 cat1

C:\>simdb add item2 cat2

C:\>simdb add item3 cat3

C:\>simdb add item4

C:\>simdb add item5

C:\>simdb add item6 cat4

C:\>simdb add item7 cat4

C:\>simdb latest
item7, 2014-06-04T16:02:01, cat4

C:\>simdb latest cat4
item7, 2014-06-04T16:02:01, cat4
item6, 2014-06-04T16:01:55, cat4

C:\>simdb all
item1, 2014-06-04T16:01:26, cat1
item2, 2014-06-04T16:01:34, cat2
item3, 2014-06-04T16:01:41, cat3
item4, 2014-06-04T16:01:46, none
item5, 2014-06-04T16:01:49, none
item6, 2014-06-04T16:01:55, cat4
item7, 2014-06-04T16:02:01, cat4

C:\>simdb add
Usage:
 simdb cmd [categoryname]

 add     add item, followed by optional category
 latest  print last added item(s), followed by optional category
 all     print all

 For instance: add "some item name" "some category name"

File:

item1,2014-06-04T16:01:26,cat1
item2,2014-06-04T16:01:34,cat2
item3,2014-06-04T16:01:41,cat3
item4,2014-06-04T16:01:46,none
item5,2014-06-04T16:01:49,none
item6,2014-06-04T16:01:55,cat4
item7,2014-06-04T16:02:01,cat4

Erlang

<lang Erlang>

  1. ! /usr/bin/env escript

-compile({no_auto_import,[date/0]}).

main( ["add", Tag | Descriptions] ) -> add( date(), Tag, Descriptions ); main( ["add_date", Date, Tag | Descriptions] ) -> add( date_internal(string:tokens(Date, "-")), Tag, Descriptions ); main( ["print_latest"] ) -> print_latest( contents() ); main( ["print_latest_for_each"] ) -> print_latest_for_each( contents() ); main( ["print_all_date", Date] ) -> print_all_date( date_internal(string:tokens(Date, "-")), contents() ); main( _Error ) -> usage().


add( Date, Tag, Descriptions ) -> Contents = contents(), file:write_file( file(), io_lib:format("simple_database_v1.~n~p.~n", [[{Date, Tag, Descriptions} | Contents]]) ).

date() -> Template:Date, Time = calendar:local_time(), Date.

date_external( {Year, Month, Day} ) -> string:join( [erlang:integer_to_list(Year), erlang:integer_to_list(Month), erlang:integer_to_list(Day)], "-" ); date_external( _Error ) -> usage().

date_internal( [Year, Month, Day] ) -> {erlang:list_to_integer(Year), erlang:list_to_integer(Month), erlang:list_to_integer(Day)}; date_internal( _Error ) -> usage().

file() -> "simple_database_contents".

contents() -> contents( file:consult(file()) ).

contents( {ok, [simple_database_v1, Contents]} ) -> Contents; contents( {error, Error} ) when is_atom(Error) -> []; contents( {error, _Error} ) -> io:fwrite( "Error: ~p corrupt. Starting from scratch~n", [file()] ), [].

print_all_date( _Date, [] ) -> ok; print_all_date( Date, Contents ) -> [print_latest([{D, Tag, Descriptions}]) || {D, Tag, Descriptions} <- Contents, D =:= Date].

print_latest( [] ) -> ok; print_latest( [{Date, Tag, Descriptions} | _T] ) -> io:fwrite( "~s~n", [string:join( [date_external(Date), Tag | Descriptions], " ")] ).

print_latest_for_each( [] ) -> ok; print_latest_for_each( Contents ) -> Tags = lists:usort( [Tag || {_Date, Tag, _Descriptions} <- Contents] ), [print_latest([lists:keyfind(X, 2, Contents)]) || X <- Tags].

usage() -> io:fwrite( "Usage: ~p [add | add_date <date>] tag description ...~n", [escript:script_name()] ), io:fwrite( "Or: ~p [print_latest | print_latest_for_each | print_all_date <date>]~n", [escript:script_name()] ), io:fwrite( "Date format is YYYY-MM-DD~n" ), io:fwrite( "Data stored in ~p~n", [file()] ), init:stop(). </lang> Command line session started with these file contents as database:

simple_database_v1.
[{{2013,9,16},"comic",["hobbe"]},
 {{2013,9,16},"comic",["gustaf"]}].

Command line session:

./simple_database add num 1 2 3
./simple_database add_date 1991-01-01 num 999 888
./simple_database print_latest
1991-1-1 num 999 888
./simple_database print_latest_for_each
2013-9-16 comic hobbe
1991-1-1 num 999 888
./simple_database print_all_date 2013-09-16
2013-9-16 num 1 2 3
2013-9-16 comic hobbe
2013-9-16 comic gustaf


Forth

Simple in-memory database. Load/dump database from/to a file.

Works with: Gforth version 0.7

Example file 'test.sdb':

+: betty 1974.03.03;coworker;reading;

+: geea 1980.01.01;friend;sketch writer;

+: tom 1991.03.07;family member;reading;

+: alice 1987.09.01;coworker;classical music;

+: gammaQ3.14 3045.09.09;friend;watch movies, star walking; 

Example usage:

 
$ gforth sdb.fs 

help 

[ -erased help message- ] 

load test.sdb  ok

.keys 

gammaQ3.14 alice tom geea betty  ok 

betty .record betty 1974.03.03;coworker;reading; ok 

newline geea .record 

geea 1980.01.01;friend;sketch writer; ok

+: theea 1979.04.05;coworker;astronomy;  ok 

newline .bydate 

gammaQ3.14 3045.09.09;friend;watch movies, star walking;

tom 1991.03.07;family member;reading;

alice 1987.09.01;coworker;classical music;

geea 1980.01.01;friend;sketch writer;

theea 1979.04.05;coworker;astronomy;

betty 1974.03.03;coworker;reading;

dump t2.sdb  ok

bye 

$ 

$ cat t2.sdb

+: betty 1974.03.03;coworker;reading;

+: geea 1980.01.01;friend;sketch writer;

+: tom 1991.03.07;family member;reading;

+: alice 1987.09.01;coworker;classical music;

+: gammaQ3.14 3045.09.09;friend;watch movies, star walking;

+: theea 1979.04.05;coworker;astronomy;

$

Code: <lang forth>\ sdb.fs Simple database. Gforth 0.7.0 specific ' noop is bootmessage

wordlist constant USER: \ USER functions wordlist constant SDB \ DB keys wordlist constant FIELDS \ DB fields

-SDB?EXIT ( -- ; Continue if `SDB' non-empty )

SDB cell+ @ 0= IF rdrop exit THEN ;

\ MACROS

|comp| ( MACRO: | code to be compiled | )

char parse evaluate ; immediate

LIST ( node -- ) ]] BEGIN @ dup WHILE >R [[ ; immediate
LOOP-LIST ( -- ) ]] R> REPEAT drop [[ ; immediate
UNLIST ( -- ) POSTPONE rdrop ; immediate

\ Helper words

.; [char] ; emit ;
!+ dup cell+ -rot ! ;
($+) ( cas us cad ud -- cad us+ud ; append source string to destination )

swap >R 2dup + R> swap >R tuck + swap >R swap move R> R> ;

\ --- Working Record Fields current @ FIELDS current ! 2variable person 2variable birthday 2variable relationship 2variable hobby current ! FIELDS >order

\ --- Ring list

new-node ( -- node ; root of circular list )

here dup , ;

do-link ( node new-node -- ; do link after current node )

over @ over ! swap ! ;

empty-ring? ( node -- f ) dup @ = ;
RING ( node -- ) ]] dup BEGIN @ 2dup <> WHILE 2>R [[ ; immediate
LOOP-RING ( -- ) ]] 2R> REPEAT 2drop [[ ; immediate
UNRING ( -- ) postpone 2RDROP ; immediate
noname

s" " person 2! s" 9999.01.01" birthday 2! s" " relationship 2! s" " hobby 2! ; new-node swap , CONSTANT OLD

\ --- Insertion into ring

node>xt ( node -- xt ) cell+ @ ;
bday@ ( node -- ca u ) node>xt execute birthday 2@ ;
datecmp ( node node -- -1|0|1 ) bday@ rot bday@ compare ;
search-by-date ( new-node node -- node' ; Linear search by birth date )

dup RING ( new-node node ) over I datecmp 0< IF nip UNRING exit ELSE drop I THEN LOOP-RING nip ;

insert-ordered ( new-node -- )

OLD dup empty-ring? 0= IF over swap search-by-date THEN swap do-link ;

\ --- Field compiling

fld: [char] ; parse postpone sliteral ; immediate
_sdb-walk ( MACRO: | xt[--] -- | )

]] -SDB?EXIT here dup SDB cell+ LIST I name>int swap !+ LOOP-LIST 1 cells literal - DO I @ |comp| -1 cells literal +LOOP [[ ; immediate

2variable category

msg_nocategory ( -- )

." No such category!" cr ;

\ --- USER definitions user: >order current @ USER: current !

bye bye ;
.s .s ;
newline cr ;
godb SDB >order ;
.keys SDB wordlist-words ;
.person person 2@ type ;
.birthday birthday 2@ type ;
.relationship relationship 2@ type ;
.hobby hobby 2@ type ;
.record .person 1 spaces .birthday .; .relationship .; .hobby .; ;
.last SDB cell+ @ dup

IF name>int execute .record ELSE drop THEN ;

.lastbycategory ( "field-name" -- )

here 0 category 2! parse-name FIELDS search-wordlist IF sdb cell+ LIST ( xt ) I name>int execute dup execute 2@ category 2@ 2swap search nip nip 0= IF .record cr dup execute 2@ category 2@ ($+) category 2! THEN LOOP-LIST drop ELSE ['] msg_nocategory stderr OUTFILE-EXECUTE THEN ;

.bydate ( -- )

OLD RING I node>xt execute .record cr LOOP-RING ;

.sdb _sdb-walk | execute .record cr | ;
sdb-dump _sdb-walk | execute ." +: " .record cr | ;
dump ( "db-file" -- )

parse-name w/o CREATE-FILE throw dup ['] sdb-dump swap OUTFILE-EXECUTE CLOSE-FILE throw ;

load ( "db-file" -- ) include ;
+: ( "person birth-day;relationship;hobby; -- )

new-node dup cell+ >R 0 , \ post `xt' current @ SDB current ! \ compile into `sdb' wordlist : latestxt dup R> ! \ fix-up `xt' ]] literal >name name>string person 2! fld: birthday 2! fld: relationship 2! fld: hobby 2! ; [[ current ! insert-ordered ;

HELP cr

cr ." KEYWORDS: " USER: wordlist-words cr ." ---" cr ." Prefix `.' means print" cr ." To add a record, type: +: name yyyy.mm.dd;relationship;hobby;" cr cr ; current ! SEAL godb</lang>

Go

<lang go>package main

import (

   "encoding/json"
   "fmt"
   "io"
   "os"
   "sort"
   "strings"
   "time"
   "unicode"

)

// Database record format. Time stamp and name are required. // Tags and notes are optional. type Item struct {

   Stamp time.Time
   Name  string
   Tags  []string `json:",omitempty"`
   Notes string   `json:",omitempty"`

}

// Item implements stringer interface func (i *Item) String() string {

   s := i.Stamp.Format(time.ANSIC) + "\n  Name:  " + i.Name
   if len(i.Tags) > 0 {
       s = fmt.Sprintf("%s\n  Tags:  %v", s, i.Tags)
   }
   if i.Notes > "" {
       s += "\n  Notes: " + i.Notes
   }
   return s

}

// collection of Items type db []*Item

// db implements sort.Interface func (d db) Len() int { return len(d) } func (d db) Swap(i, j int) { d[i], d[j] = d[j], d[i] } func (d db) Less(i, j int) bool { return d[i].Stamp.Before(d[j].Stamp) }

// hard coded database file name const fn = "sdb.json"

func main() {

   if len(os.Args) == 1 {
       latest()
       return
   }
   switch os.Args[1] {
   case "add":
       add()
   case "latest":
       latest()
   case "tags":
       tags()
   case "all":
       all()
   case "help":
       help()
   default:
       usage("unrecognized command")
   }

}

func usage(err string) {

   if err > "" {
       fmt.Println(err)
   }
   fmt.Println(`usage:  sdb [command] [data]
   where command is one of add, latest, tags, all, or help.`)

}

func help() {

   usage("")
   fmt.Println(`

Commands must be in lower case. If no command is specified, the default command is latest.

Latest prints the latest item. All prints all items in chronological order. Tags prints the lastest item for each tag. Help prints this message.

Add adds data as a new record. The format is,

 name [tags] [notes]

Name is the name of the item and is required for the add command.

Tags are optional. A tag is a single word. A single tag can be specified without enclosing brackets. Multiple tags can be specified by enclosing them in square brackets.

Text remaining after tags is taken as notes. Notes do not have to be enclosed in quotes or brackets. The brackets above are only showing that notes are optional.

Quotes may be useful however--as recognized by your operating system shell or command line--to allow entry of arbitrary text. In particular, quotes or escape characters may be needed to prevent the shell from trying to interpret brackets or other special characters.

Examples: sdb add Bookends // no tags, no notes sdb add Bookends rock my favorite // tag: rock, notes: my favorite sdb add Bookends [rock folk] // two tags sdb add Bookends [] "Simon & Garfunkel" // notes, no tags sdb add "Simon&Garfunkel [artist]" // name: Simon&Garfunkel, tag: artist

As shown in the last example, if you use features of your shell to pass all data as a single string, the item name and tags will still be identified by separating whitespace.

The database is stored in JSON format in the file "sdb.json" `) }

// load data for read only purposes. func load() (db, bool) {

   d, f, ok := open()
   if ok {
       f.Close()
       if len(d) == 0 {
           fmt.Println("no items")
           ok = false
       }
   }
   return d, ok

}

// open database, leave open func open() (d db, f *os.File, ok bool) {

   var err error
   f, err = os.OpenFile(fn, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE, 0666)
   if err != nil {
       fmt.Println("cant open??")
       fmt.Println(err)
       return
   }
   jd := json.NewDecoder(f)
   err = jd.Decode(&d)
   // EOF just means file was empty.  That's okay with us.
   if err != nil && err != io.EOF {
       fmt.Println(err)
       f.Close()
       return
   }
   ok = true
   return

}

// handle latest command func latest() {

   d, ok := load()
   if !ok {
       return
   }
   sort.Sort(d)
   fmt.Println(d[len(d)-1])

}

// handle all command func all() {

   d, ok := load()
   if !ok {
       return
   }
   sort.Sort(d)
   for _, i := range d {
       fmt.Println("-----------------------------------")
       fmt.Println(i)
   }
   fmt.Println("-----------------------------------")

}

// handle tags command func tags() {

   d, ok := load()
   if !ok {
       return
   }
   // we have to traverse the entire list to collect tags so there
   // is no point in sorting at this point.
   // collect set of unique tags associated with latest item for each
   latest := make(map[string]*Item)
   for _, item := range d {
       for _, tag := range item.Tags {
           li, ok := latest[tag]
           if !ok || item.Stamp.After(li.Stamp) {
               latest[tag] = item
           }
       }
   }
   // invert to set of unique items, associated with subset of tags
   // for which the item is the latest.
   type itemTags struct {
       item *Item
       tags []string
   }
   inv := make(map[*Item][]string)
   for tag, item := range latest {
       inv[item] = append(inv[item], tag)
   }
   // now we sort just the items we will output
   li := make(db, len(inv))
   i := 0
   for item := range inv {
       li[i] = item
       i++
   }
   sort.Sort(li)
   // finally ready to print
   for _, item := range li {
       tags := inv[item]
       fmt.Println("-----------------------------------")
       fmt.Println("Latest item with tags", tags)
       fmt.Println(item)
   }
   fmt.Println("-----------------------------------")

}

// handle add command func add() {

   if len(os.Args) < 3 {
       usage("add command requires data")
       return
   } else if len(os.Args) == 3 {
       add1()
   } else {
       add4()
   }

}

// add command with one data string. look for ws as separators. func add1() {

   data := strings.TrimLeftFunc(os.Args[2], unicode.IsSpace)
   if data == "" {
       // data must have at least some non-whitespace
       usage("invalid name")
       return 
   }
   sep := strings.IndexFunc(data, unicode.IsSpace)
   if sep < 0 {
       // data consists only of a name
       addItem(data, nil, "")
       return
   }
   name := data[:sep]
   data = strings.TrimLeftFunc(data[sep:], unicode.IsSpace)
   if data == "" {
       // nevermind trailing ws, it's still only a name
       addItem(name, nil, "")
       return
   }
   if data[0] == '[' {
       sep = strings.Index(data, "]")
       if sep < 0 {
           // close bracketed list for the user.  no notes.
           addItem(name, strings.Fields(data[1:]), "")
       } else {
           // brackets make things easy
           addItem(name, strings.Fields(data[1:sep]),
               strings.TrimLeftFunc(data[sep+1:], unicode.IsSpace))
       }
       return
   }
   sep = strings.IndexFunc(data, unicode.IsSpace)
   if sep < 0 {
       // remaining word is a tag
       addItem(name, []string{data}, "")
   } else {
       // there's a tag and some data
       addItem(name, []string{data[:sep]},
           strings.TrimLeftFunc(data[sep+1:], unicode.IsSpace))
   }

}

// add command with multiple strings remaining on command line func add4() {

   name := os.Args[2]
   tag1 := os.Args[3]
   if tag1[0] != '[' {
       // no brackets makes things easy
       addItem(name, []string{tag1}, strings.Join(os.Args[4:], " "))
       return
   }
   if tag1[len(tag1)-1] == ']' {
       // tags all in one os.Arg is easy too
       addItem(name, strings.Fields(tag1[1:len(tag1)-1]),
           strings.Join(os.Args[4:], " "))
       return
   }
   // start a list for tags
   var tags []string
   if tag1 > "[" {
       tags = []string{tag1[1:]}
   }
   for x, tag := range os.Args[4:] {
       if tag[len(tag)-1] != ']' {
           tags = append(tags, tag)
       } else {
           // found end of tag list
           if tag > "]" {
               tags = append(tags, tag[:len(tag)-1])
           }
           addItem(name, tags, strings.Join(os.Args[5+x:], " "))
           return
       }
   }
   // close bracketed list for the user.  no notes.
   addItem(name, tags, "")

}

// complete the add command func addItem(name string, tags []string, notes string) {

   db, f, ok := open()
   if !ok {
       return
   }
   defer f.Close()
   // add the item and format JSON
   db = append(db, &Item{time.Now(), name, tags, notes})
   sort.Sort(db)
   js, err := json.MarshalIndent(db, "", "  ")
   if err != nil {
       fmt.Println(err)
       return
   }
   // time to overwrite the file
   if _, err = f.Seek(0, 0); err != nil {
       fmt.Println(err)
       return
   }
   f.Truncate(0)
   if _, err = f.Write(js); err != nil {
       fmt.Println(err)
   }

}</lang>

Haskell

The database is a list of type Item stored in a StateT monad transformer that allows for IO actions to be perfomed with it (StateT [Item] IO a). All IO actions occurring inside the StateT monad (handling command line arguments and printing items) must be lifted. The database is written to disk using "show" and read back using "read". Therefore, Item is declared as an instance of both Show and Read classes. An item in the database file looks like the following: Item {description = "La traviata", category = ["Classical"], date = Date 2012 10 19, optional = ["Giuseppe Verdi","1853"]}

<lang Haskell>import Control.Monad.State import Data.List (sortBy, nub) import System.Environment (getArgs, getProgName) import System.Directory (doesFileExist) import System.IO (openFile, hGetContents, hClose, IOMode(..),

   Handle, hPutStrLn)

-- for storing dates data Date = Date Integer Int Int deriving (Show, Read, Eq, Ord)

-- for storing database items data Item = Item {description :: String

                   ,category    :: [String]
                   ,date        :: Date
                   ,optional    :: [String]}
                   deriving (Show, Read)

-- a state monad transformer which wraps IO actions. -- the database (state) is passed implicitly between functions. type ItemList a = StateT [Item] IO a

-- add an item to the database addItem :: Item -> ItemList () addItem i = modify (++ [i])

-- get the newest of a list of items latest :: [Item] -> [Item] latest [] = [] latest [x]= [x] latest xs = take 1 $ sortBy newer xs

-- compare two items to see which one is newer newer :: Item -> Item -> Ordering newer a b = compare (date b) (date a)

-- list all different categories (no duplicates) categories :: ItemList [String] categories = liftM (nub . concatMap category) get

-- list only the items with the given category tag filterByCategory :: String -> ItemList [Item] filterByCategory c = liftM (filter (\i -> c `elem` category i)) get

-- get the newest of all items lastOfAll :: ItemList [Item] lastOfAll = liftM latest get

-- get the newest item in each category latestByCategory :: ItemList [Item] latestByCategory = do

   cats <- categories
   filt <- mapM filterByCategory cats
   return $ concatMap latest filt

-- sort all items chronologically, newest first sortByDate :: ItemList [Item] sortByDate = liftM (sortBy newer) get

toScreen :: Item -> IO () toScreen (Item desc cats (Date y m d) opt) = putStrLn $

   "Description:\t" ++ desc ++ "\nCategories:\t" ++ show cats ++
   "\nDate:\t\t" ++ show y ++ "-" ++ show m ++ "-" ++ show d ++
   "\nOther info:\t" ++ show opt

-- command line argument handling -- if the user called the program with the option "add", the -- new item is returned to main so that it can be saved to disk. -- the argument "opt" is a list. arguments :: ItemList [Item] arguments = do

   args <- liftIO getArgs
   case args of
       ("add":desc:cat:year:month:day:opt) -> do
           let newItem = parseItem args
           addItem newItem
           return [newItem]
       ("latest":[]) -> do
           item <- lastOfAll
           lift $ mapM_ toScreen item
           return []
       ("category":[]) -> do
           items <- latestByCategory
           lift $ mapM_ toScreen items
           return []
       ("all":[]) -> do
           sorted <- sortByDate
           lift $ mapM_ toScreen sorted
           return []
       _ -> do
           lift usage
           return []

parseItem :: [String] -> Item parseItem (_:desc:cat:year:month:day:opt) =

   Item {description = desc, category = words cat,
       date = Date (read year) (read month) (read day),
       optional = opt}
               

usage :: IO () usage = do

   progName <- getProgName
   putStrLn $ "Usage: " ++ progName ++ " add|all|category|latest \
       \OPTIONS\n\nadd \"description\" \"category1 category2\"... \
       \year month day [\"note1\" \"note2\"...]\n\tAdds a new record \
       \to the database.\n\nall\n\tPrints all items in chronological \
       \order.\n\ncategory\n\tPrints the latest item for each category.\
       \\n\nlatest\n\tPrints the latest item."

-- the program creates, reads and writes to a file in the current directory main :: IO () main = do

   progName <- getProgName
   let fileName = progName ++ ".db"
   e <- doesFileExist fileName
   if e
       then do
           hr <- openFile fileName ReadMode
           f <- hGetContents hr
           v <- evalStateT arguments (map read $ lines f)
           hClose hr -- must be called after working with contents!
           hw <- openFile fileName AppendMode
           mapM_ (hPutStrLn hw . show) v
           hClose hw
       else do
           v <- evalStateT arguments []
           hw <- openFile fileName WriteMode
           mapM_ (hPutStrLn hw . show) v
           hClose hw

</lang>

J

J comes with a sql database, jdb. Jdb's columns are memory mapped files with header information. These won't meet the human readable data file requirement. Hence, this program:

<lang j>HELP=: 0 :0 Commands:

DBNAME add DATA DBNAME display the latest entry DBNAME display the latest entry where CATEGORY contains WORD DBNAME display all entries DBNAME display all entries order by CATEGORY

1) The first add with new DBNAME assign category names. 2) lower case arguments verbatim. 3) UPPER CASE: substitute your values.

Examples, having saved this program as a file named s : $ jconsole s simple.db display all entries $ jconsole s simple.db add "first field" "2nd field" )

Q=: ' NB. quote character time=: 6!:0@:('YYYY-MM-DD:hh:mm:ss.sss'"_)

embed=: >@:{.@:[ , ] , >@:{:@:[ assert '(x+y)' -: '()' embed 'x+y'

Duplicate=: 1 :'#~ m&= + 1 #~ #' assert 0 1 2 3 3 4 -: 3 Duplicate i.5

prepare=: LF ,~ [: }:@:; (Q;Q,';')&embed@:(Q Duplicate)&.>@:(;~ time) assert (-: }.@:".@:}:@:prepare) 'boxed';;'list';'of';strings

categorize=: dyad define i=. x i. y if. (1 (~: #) i) +. i (= #) x do.

smoutput 'choose 1 of'
smoutput x
exit 1

end. {. i NB. "index of" frame has rank 1. ) assert 0 -: 'abc' categorize 'a'

loadsdb=: (<'time') (<0 0)} ".;._2@:(1!:1)

Dispatch=: conjunction define help

commands=. y command=. {. commands x (u`help@.(command(i.~ ;:)n)) }.commands )

NB. the long fork in show groups (": #~ (1 1 embed (1j1 }:@:# (1 #~ #)))) show=: smoutput@:(": #~ 1 1 embed 1j1 }:@:# 1 #~ #)

in=: +./@:E. assert 'the' in'quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' assert 'the'-.@:in'QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG'

where=: dyad define 'category contains word'=. 3 {. y if. 'contains' -.@:-: contains do.

help
exit 1

end. i=. x ({.@:[ categorize <@:]) category j=. {: I. ; word&in&.> i {"1 x if. 0 (= #) j do.

smoutput 'no matches'

else.

x (show@:{~ 0&,) j

end. )

entry=: 4 : 0 if. a: = y do.

show@:({. ,: {:) x

else.

x `where Dispatch'where' y

end. )

latest=: `entry Dispatch'entry' the=: `latest Dispatch'latest'

by=: 4 : 0 i=. x (categorize~ {.)~ y show ({. , (/: i&{"1)@:}.) x )

order=: `by Dispatch'by'

entries=: 4 : 0 if. a: = y do.

show x

else.

x `order Dispatch'order' y

end. )

all=: `entries Dispatch'entries'

help=: smoutput@:(HELP"_) add=: 1!:3~ prepare NB. minimal---no error tests display=: (the`all Dispatch'the all'~ loadsdb)~ NB. load the simple db for some sort of display

({. add`display Dispatch'add display' }.)@:(2&}.)ARGV

exit 0 </lang> Assume the j code is stored in file s . These bash commands, stored in file input , create a database using add . <lang sh>D='jconsole s dataflow'

$D add name expression algebraic rank valence example explanation $D add insert 'f/ y' 'insert f within y' infinite dyad 'sum=: +/' 'continued_fraction=:+`%/' $D add fork '(f g h)y' 'g(f(y),h(y))' infinite monad 'average=: +/ % #' 'sum divided by tally' $D add hook '(f g)y' 'f(y,g(y))' infinite monad '(/: 2&{"1)table' 'sort by third column' $D add hook 'x(f g)y' 'f(x,g(y))' infinite dyad 'display verb in s' 'a reflexive dyadic hook' $D add fork 'x(f g h)y' 'g(f(x,y),h(x,y))' infinite dyad '2j1(+ * -)9 12' 'product of sum and difference' $D add reflexive 'f~ y' 'f(y,y)' infinite monad '^~y' 'y raised to the power of y' $D add passive 'x f~ y' 'f(y,x)' 'ranks of f' dyad '(%~ i.@:>:) 8x' '8 intervals from 0 to 1' $D add atop 'f@g y' 'f(g(y))' 'rank of g' monad '*:@(+/)' 'square the sum' $D add atop 'x f@g y' 'f(g(x,y))' 'rank of g' dyad '>@{.' '(lisp) open the car' $D add 'many more!' </lang> Now we look up data from the bash command line. <lang sh> $ . input # source the input $ echo $D jconsole s dataflow $ $D display the latest entry ┌───────────────────────┬──────────┬──────────┬─────────┬────┬───────┬───────┬───────────┐ │time │name │expression│algebraic│rank│valence│example│explanation│ │2012-02-07:20:36:54.749│many more!│ │ │ │ │ │ │ └───────────────────────┴──────────┴──────────┴─────────┴────┴───────┴───────┴───────────┘ $ $D display the latest entry where 'part of speech' contains verb choose 1 of ┌────┬────┬──────────┬─────────┬────┬───────┬───────┬───────────┐ │time│name│expression│algebraic│rank│valence│example│explanation│ └────┴────┴──────────┴─────────┴────┴───────┴───────┴───────────┘ $ $D display the latest entry where example contains average ┌───────────────────────┬────┬──────────┬────────────┬────────┬───────┬────────────────┬────────────────────┐ │time │name│expression│algebraic │rank │valence│example │explanation │ │2012-02-07:20:36:54.564│fork│(f g h)y │g(f(y),h(y))│infinite│monad │average=: +/ % #│sum divided by tally│ └───────────────────────┴────┴──────────┴────────────┴────────┴───────┴────────────────┴────────────────────┘ $ $D display all entries ordre by valence # oops! transposition typo. Commands:

DBNAME add DATA DBNAME display the latest entry DBNAME display the latest entry where CATEGORY contains WORD DBNAME display all entries DBNAME display all entries order by CATEGORY

1) The first add with new DBNAME assign category names. 2) lower case arguments verbatim. 3) UPPER CASE: substitute your values.

Examples, having saved this program as a file named s : $ jconsole s simple.db display all entries $ jconsole s simple.db add "first field" "2nd field"

$ $D display all entries order by valence ┌───────────────────────┬──────────┬──────────┬─────────────────┬──────────┬───────┬─────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐ │time │name │expression│algebraic │rank │valence│example │explanation │ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.539│many more!│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.329│insert │f/ y │insert f within y│infinite │dyad │sum=: +/ │continued_fraction=:+`%/ │ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.400│hook │x(f g)y │f(x,g(y)) │infinite │dyad │display verb in s│a reflexive dyadic hook │ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.426│fork │x(f g h)y │g(f(x,y),h(x,y)) │infinite │dyad │2j1(+ * -)9 12 │product of sum and difference│ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.471│passive │x f~ y │f(y,x) │ranks of f│dyad │(%~ i.@:>:) 8x │8 intervals from 0 to 1 │ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.515│atop │x f@g y │f(g(x,y)) │rank of g │dyad │>@{. │(lisp) open the car │ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.353│fork │(f g h)y │g(f(y),h(y)) │infinite │monad │average=: +/ % # │sum divided by tally │ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.376│hook │(f g)y │f(y,g(y)) │infinite │monad │(/: 2&{"1)table │sort by third column │ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.448│reflexive │f~ y │f(y,y) │infinite │monad │^~y │y raised to the power of y │ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.493│atop │f@g y │f(g(y)) │rank of g │monad │*:@(+/) │square the sum │ └───────────────────────┴──────────┴──────────┴─────────────────┴──────────┴───────┴─────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘ $ $D display all entries ┌───────────────────────┬──────────┬──────────┬─────────────────┬──────────┬───────┬─────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐ │time │name │expression│algebraic │rank │valence│example │explanation │ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.329│insert │f/ y │insert f within y│infinite │dyad │sum=: +/ │continued_fraction=:+`%/ │ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.353│fork │(f g h)y │g(f(y),h(y)) │infinite │monad │average=: +/ % # │sum divided by tally │ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.376│hook │(f g)y │f(y,g(y)) │infinite │monad │(/: 2&{"1)table │sort by third column │ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.400│hook │x(f g)y │f(x,g(y)) │infinite │dyad │display verb in s│a reflexive dyadic hook │ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.426│fork │x(f g h)y │g(f(x,y),h(x,y)) │infinite │dyad │2j1(+ * -)9 12 │product of sum and difference│ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.448│reflexive │f~ y │f(y,y) │infinite │monad │^~y │y raised to the power of y │ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.471│passive │x f~ y │f(y,x) │ranks of f│dyad │(%~ i.@:>:) 8x │8 intervals from 0 to 1 │ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.493│atop │f@g y │f(g(y)) │rank of g │monad │*:@(+/) │square the sum │ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.515│atop │x f@g y │f(g(x,y)) │rank of g │dyad │>@{. │(lisp) open the car │ │2012-02-08:23:45:06.539│many more!│ │ │ │ │ │ │ └───────────────────────┴──────────┴──────────┴─────────────────┴──────────┴───────┴─────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘ $ cat dataflow '2012-02-08:23:45:06.304';'name';'expression';'algebraic';'rank';'valence';'example';'explanation' '2012-02-08:23:45:06.329';'insert';'f/ y';'insert f within y';'infinite';'dyad';'sum=: +/';'continued_fraction=:+`%/' '2012-02-08:23:45:06.353';'fork';'(f g h)y';'g(f(y),h(y))';'infinite';'monad';'average=: +/ % #';'sum divided by tally' '2012-02-08:23:45:06.376';'hook';'(f g)y';'f(y,g(y))';'infinite';'monad';'(/: 2&{"1)table';'sort by third column' '2012-02-08:23:45:06.400';'hook';'x(f g)y';'f(x,g(y))';'infinite';'dyad';'display verb in s';'a reflexive dyadic hook' '2012-02-08:23:45:06.426';'fork';'x(f g h)y';'g(f(x,y),h(x,y))';'infinite';'dyad';'2j1(+ * -)9 12';'product of sum and difference' '2012-02-08:23:45:06.448';'reflexive';'f~ y';'f(y,y)';'infinite';'monad';'^~y';'y raised to the power of y' '2012-02-08:23:45:06.471';'passive';'x f~ y';'f(y,x)';'ranks of f';'dyad';'(%~ i.@:>:) 8x';'8 intervals from 0 to 1' '2012-02-08:23:45:06.493';'atop';'f@g y';'f(g(y))';'rank of g';'monad';'*:@(+/)';'square the sum' '2012-02-08:23:45:06.515';'atop';'x f@g y';'f(g(x,y))';'rank of g';'dyad';'>@{.';'(lisp) open the car' '2012-02-08:23:45:06.539';'many more!' $ </lang>

Java

Translation of: D
Works with: Java version 7

<lang java>import java.io.*; import java.text.*; import java.util.*;

public class SimpleDatabase {

   final static String filename = "simdb.csv";
   public static void main(String[] args) {
       if (args.length < 1 || args.length > 3) {
           printUsage();
           return;
       }
       switch (args[0].toLowerCase()) {
           case "add":
               addItem(args);
               break;
           case "latest":
               printLatest(args);
               break;
           case "all":
               printAll();
               break;
           default:
               printUsage();
               break;
       }
   }
   private static class Item implements Comparable<Item>{
       final String name;
       final String date;
       final String category;
       Item(String n, String d, String c) {
           name = n;
           date = d;
           category = c;
       }
       @Override
       public int compareTo(Item item){
           return date.compareTo(item.date);
       }
       @Override
       public String toString() {
           return String.format("%s,%s,%s%n", name, date, category);
       }
   }
   private static void addItem(String[] input) {
       if (input.length < 2) {
           printUsage();
           return;
       }
       List<Item> db = load();
       SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
       String date = sdf.format(new Date());
       String cat = (input.length == 3) ? input[2] : "none";
       db.add(new Item(input[1], date, cat));
       store(db);
   }
   private static void printLatest(String[] a) {
       List<Item> db = load();
       if (db.isEmpty()) {
           System.out.println("No entries in database.");
           return;
       }
       Collections.sort(db);
       if (a.length == 2) {
           for (Item item : db)
               if (item.category.equals(a[1]))
                   System.out.println(item);
       } else {
           System.out.println(db.get(0));
       }
   }
   private static void printAll() {
       List<Item> db = load();
       if (db.isEmpty()) {
           System.out.println("No entries in database.");
           return;
       }
       Collections.sort(db);
       for (Item item : db)
           System.out.println(item);
   }
   private static List<Item> load() {
       List<Item> db = new ArrayList<>();
       try (Scanner sc = new Scanner(new File(filename))) {
           while (sc.hasNext()) {
               String[] item = sc.nextLine().split(",");
               db.add(new Item(item[0], item[1], item[2]));
           }
       } catch (IOException e) {
           System.out.println(e);
       }
       return db;
   }
   private static void store(List<Item> db) {
       try (FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(filename)) {
           for (Item item : db)
               fw.write(item.toString());
       } catch (IOException e) {
           System.out.println(e);
       }
   }
   private static void printUsage() {
        System.out.println("Usage:");
        System.out.println("  simdb cmd [categoryName]");
        System.out.println("  add     add item, followed by optional category");
        System.out.println("  latest  print last added item(s), followed by "
                + "optional category");
        System.out.println("  all     print all");
        System.out.println("  For instance: add \"some item name\" "
                + "\"some category name\"");
   }

}</lang>

Output:

C:\temp>java -jar SimpleDatabase.jar add item1

C:\temp>java -jar SimpleDatabase.jar add item2

C:\temp>java -jar SimpleDatabase.jar add item3 cat3

C:\temp>java -jar SimpleDatabase.jar add item4 cat3

C:\temp>java -jar SimpleDatabase.jar add item5 cat3

C:\temp>java -jar SimpleDatabase.jar latest
item1,2014-06-03 19:30:05,none

C:\temp>java -jar SimpleDatabase.jar latest cat3
item3,2014-06-03 19:30:14,cat3

item4,2014-06-03 19:30:20,cat3

item5,2014-06-03 19:30:23,cat3

C:\temp>java -jar SimpleDatabase.jar all
item1,2014-06-03 19:30:05,none

item2,2014-06-03 19:30:08,none

item3,2014-06-03 19:30:14,cat3

item4,2014-06-03 19:30:20,cat3

item5,2014-06-03 19:30:23,cat3

Perl

<lang Perl>#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature qw{ say };

use JSON::PP; use Time::Piece;

use constant {

   NAME     => 0,
   CATEGORY => 1,
   DATE     => 2,
   DB       => 'simple-db',

};

my $operation = shift // "";

my %dispatch = (

   n => \&add_new,
   l => \&print_latest,
   L => \&print_latest_for_categories,
   a => \&print_all,

);

if ($dispatch{$operation}) {

   $dispatch{$operation}->(@ARGV);

} else {

   die "Invalid option. Use one of n, l, L, a.\n"

}

sub add_new {

   my ($name, $category, $date) = @_;
   my $db = eval { load() } || {};
   if (defined $date) {
       eval { 'Time::Piece'->strptime($date, '%Y-%m-%d'); 1 }
           or die "Invalid date format: YYYY-MM-DD.\n";
   } else {
       $date //= localtime->ymd;
   }
   my @ids = keys %{ $db->{by_id} };
   my $max_id = max(num => @ids) || 0;
   $db->{by_id}{ ++$max_id } = [ $name, $category, $date ];
   save($db);

}

sub print_latest {

   build_indexes( my $db = load(), 0, 1 );
   _print_latest($db);

}

sub _print_latest {

   my ($db, $category) = @_;
   my @dates = keys %{ $db->{by_date} };
   @dates = grep {
       grep $db->{by_id}{$_}[CATEGORY] eq $category,
           @{ $db->{by_date}{$_} };
   } @dates if defined $category;
   my $last_date = max(str => @dates);
   say for map $db->{by_id}{$_}[NAME],
           grep ! defined $category
                || $db->{by_id}{$_}[CATEGORY] eq $category,
           @{ $db->{by_date}{$last_date} };

}

sub max {

   my $type = shift;
   my $max = $_[0];
   { num => sub { $_ >  $max },
     str => sub { $_ gt $max},
   }->{$type}->() and $max = $_
       for @_[ 1 .. $#_ ];
   return $max

}

sub print_latest_for_categories {

   build_indexes( my $db = load(), 1, 1 );
   for my $category (sort keys %{ $db->{by_category} }){
       say "* $category";
       _print_latest($db, $category);
   }

}

sub print_all {

   build_indexes( my $db = load(), 0, 1 );
   for my $date (sort keys %{ $db->{by_date} }) {
       for my $id (@{ $db->{by_date}{$date} }) {
           say $db->{by_id}{$id}[NAME];
       }
   }

}

sub load {

   open my $in, '<', DB or die "Can't open database: $!\n";
   local $/;
   return { by_id => decode_json(<$in>) };

}

sub save {

   my ($db) = @_;
   open my $out, '>', DB or die "Can't save database: $!\n";
   print {$out} encode_json($db->{by_id});
   close $out;

}

sub build_indexes {

   my ($db, $by_category, $by_date) = @_;
   for my $id (keys %{ $db->{by_id} }) {
       push @{ $db->{by_category}{ $db->{by_id}{$id}[CATEGORY] } }, $id
           if $by_category;
       push @{ $db->{by_date}{ $db->{by_id}{$id}[DATE] } }, $id
           if $by_date;
   }

}</lang>

Sample session

 ~ $ db.pl n 'Donald Trump' Republican 2017-01-20
 ~ $ db.pl n 'Barack Obama' Democratic 2009-01-20
 ~ $ db.pl n 'Bill Clinton' Democratic 1993-01-20
 ~ $ db.pl n 'George W. Bush' Republican 2001-01-20
 ~ $ db.pl a
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Donald Trump
 ~ $ db.pl l
Donald Trump
 ~ $ db.pl L
* Democratic
Barack Obama
* Republican
Donald Trump

Phix

<lang Phix>-- -- demo\rosetta\Simple_db.exw -- ========================== -- include timedate.e

constant filename = getenv(iff(platform()=WINDOWS?"APPDATA":"HOME"))&"/simple_db.csv"

procedure add(sequence cmd)

   if length(cmd)=0 
   or length(cmd)>2 then
       printf(1,"usage: add name [cat]\n")
   else
       string name = cmd[1]
       string cat = iff(length(cmd)=2?cmd[2]:"none")
       string datestr = format_timedate(date(),"YYYY/MM/DD h:mmpm")
       integer fn = open(filename,"a")
       printf(fn,"%s,%s,%s\n",{name,cat,datestr})
       close(fn)
   end if

end procedure

procedure last(sequence cmd)

   integer fn = open(filename,"r")
   if fn=-1 then
       puts(1,"file not found\n")
       return
   end if
   integer lc = length(cmd)
   string last = iff(lc?"<no entries for that category>\n":"<empty>\n")
   while 1 do
       object line = gets(fn)
       if atom(line) then exit end if
       if lc=0 or split(line,',')[2]=cmd[1] then
           last = line
       end if
   end while
   puts(1,last)
   close(fn)

end procedure

sequence dates

function by_date(integer d1, integer d2)

   return compare(dates[d1],dates[d2])

end function constant r_by_date = routine_id("by_date")

procedure sort_by_date() -- (simple_db.csv should be edited manually to prove the date sort works)

   integer fn = open(filename,"r")
   if fn=-1 then
       puts(1,"file not found\n")
       return
   end if
   sequence lines = {}
   dates = {}
   while 1 do
       object line = gets(fn)
       if atom(line) then exit end if
       lines = append(lines,line)
       dates = append(dates,split(line,',')[3])
   end while
   close(fn)
   sequence tags = custom_sort(r_by_date,tagset(length(lines)))
   for i=1 to length(tags) do
       puts(1,lines[tags[i]])
   end for

end procedure

procedure process(sequence cmd)

   switch cmd[1] do
       case "add": add(cmd[2..$])
       case "last": last(cmd[2..$])
       case "sort": sort_by_date()
       default: printf(1,"unknown command: %s\n",{cmd[1]})
   end switch

end procedure

constant helptext = """ p demo\rosetta\Simple_db -- interactive mode, commands as below p demo\rosetta\Simple_db add name [cat] -- add entry p demo\rosetta\Simple_db last [cat] -- show last entry [in specified category] p demo\rosetta\Simple_db sort -- show full list sorted by date """ sequence cl = command_line()

   if length(cl)<3 then
       -- interactive mode
       puts(1,helptext)
       while 1 do
           puts(1,">")
           object line = trim(gets(0))
           if atom(line) or length(line)=0 then exit end if
           puts(1,"\n")
           process(split(line))
       end while
   else
       process(cl[3..$])
   end if</lang>

Sample session

C:\Program Files (x86)\Phix>p demo\rosetta\simple_db
p demo\rosetta\Simple_db                    -- interactive mode, commands as below
p demo\rosetta\Simple_db add name [cat]     -- add entry
p demo\rosetta\Simple_db last [cat]         -- show last entry [in specified category]
p demo\rosetta\Simple_db sort               -- show full list sorted by date
>sort
fred,none,2016/07/25 12:30pm
cliff,none,2016/07/25 12:31pm
barney,none,2016/07/25 12:32pm
one,two,2016/07/25 12:33pm
>add three four
>sort
fred,none,2016/07/25 12:30pm
cliff,none,2016/07/25 12:31pm
barney,none,2016/07/25 12:32pm
one,two,2016/07/25 12:33pm
three,four,2016/07/25 12:39pm
>last
three,four,2016/07/25 12:39pm
>last one
<no entries for that category>
>last two
one,two,2016/07/25 12:33pm
>

PicoLisp

The 'rc' resource file handling function is used typically for such tasks. It also takes care of proper locking and protection. <lang PicoLisp>#!/usr/bin/pil

(de usage ()

  (prinl
     "Usage:^J\
     sdb <file> add <title> <cat> <date> ...  Add a new entry^J\
     sdb <file> get <title>                   Retrieve an entry^J\
     sdb <file> latest                        Print the latest entry^J\
     sdb <file> categories                    Print the latest for each cat^J\
     sdb <file>                               Print all, sorted by date" ) )

(de printEntry (E)

  (apply println (cdddr E) (car E) (cadr E) (datStr (caddr E))) )

(ifn (setq *File (opt))

  (usage)
  (case (opt)
     (add
        (let (Ttl (opt)  Cat (opt))
           (if (strDat (opt))
              (rc *File Ttl (cons Cat @ (argv)))
              (prinl "Bad date") ) ) )
     (get
        (let Ttl (opt)
           (when (rc *File Ttl)
              (printEntry (cons Ttl @)) ) ) )
     (latest
        (printEntry (maxi caddr (in *File (read)))) )
     (categories
        (for Cat (by cadr group (in *File (read)))
           (printEntry (maxi caddr Cat)) ) )
     (NIL
        (mapc printEntry (by caddr sort (in *File (read)))) )
     (T (usage)) ) )

(bye)</lang> Test:

$ sdb CDs add "Title 1" "Category 1" 2011-11-13
$ sdb CDs add "Title 2" "Category 2" 2011-11-12
$ sdb CDs add "Title 3" "Category 1" 2011-11-14 foo bar
$ sdb CDs add "Title 4" "Category 2" 2011-11-15 mumble

$ sdb CDs get "Title 3"
"Title 3" "Category 1" "2011-11-14" "foo" "bar"

$ sdb CDs latest
"Title 4" "Category 2" "2011-11-15" "mumble"

$ sdb CDs categories
"Title 4" "Category 2" "2011-11-15" "mumble"
"Title 3" "Category 1" "2011-11-14" "foo" "bar"

$ sdb CDs
"Title 2" "Category 2" "2011-11-12"
"Title 1" "Category 1" "2011-11-13"
"Title 3" "Category 1" "2011-11-14" "foo" "bar"
"Title 4" "Category 2" "2011-11-15" "mumble"

Pike

Translation of: Common Lisp

(simplified)

<lang Pike>mapping db = ([]);

mapping make_episode(string series, string title, string episode, array date) {

   return ([ "series":series, "episode":episode, "title":title, "date":date ]);

}

void print_episode(mapping episode) {

   write("  %-30s %10s %-30s (%{%d.%})\n", 
         episode->series, episode->episode, episode->title, episode->date);

}

void print_series(mapping series) {

   write("%-30s %-10s\n", series->series, series->status);
   map(series->episodes, print_episode);

}

void dump_db(mapping database) {

   foreach(database; string name; mapping series)
   {
       print_series(series);
   }

}

array get_latest(mapping database) {

   array latest = ({});
   foreach(database; string name; mapping series)
   {
      latest += ({ series->episodes[0] });
   }
   return latest;

}

int(0..1) compare_date(array a, array b) {

   if (!arrayp(a) && !arrayp(b)) return false;
   if (!arrayp(a) || !sizeof(a)) return arrayp(b) && sizeof(b);
   if (!arrayp(b) || !sizeof(b)) return arrayp(a) && sizeof(a);
   if (a[0] == b[0]) return compare_date(a[1..], b[1..]);
   return a[0] < b[0];

}

int(0..1) compare_by_date(mapping a, mapping b) {

   return compare_date(reverse(a->date), reverse(b->date));

}

void watch_list(mapping database) {

   map(Array.sort_array(get_latest(database), compare_by_date), 
       print_episode);

}

string prompt_read(string prompt) {

   write("%s: ", prompt);
   return Stdio.stdin.gets();

}

array parse_date(string date) {

   return (array(int))(date/".");

}

mapping prompt_for_episode() {

   return make_episode(prompt_read("Series"), 
                       prompt_read("Title"), 
                       prompt_read("Episode"), 
                       parse_date(prompt_read("Date watched")));

}

// pike offers encode_value() and decode_value() as standard ways // to save and read data, but that is not a human readable format. // therefore we are instead printing the structure as debug-output // which is a readable form as long as it only contains integers, // strings, mappings, arrays and multisets this format can be read by pike. // to read it we are creating a class that contains the data as a value, // which is then compiled and instantiated to allow us to pull the data out. void save_db(string filename, mapping database) {

   Stdio.write_file(filename, sprintf("%O", database));

}

void watch_save() {

   save_db("pwatch", db);

}

mapping load_db(string filename) {

   if (file_stat(filename))
       return compile_string("mixed data = " + 
                             Stdio.read_file(filename) + ";")()->data;
   else return ([]);

}

mapping get_series(string name, mapping database) {

   return database[name];

}

array get_episode_list(string series, mapping database) {

   return database[series]->episodes;

}

void watch_new_series(string name, string status, mapping database) {

   database[name] = (["series":name, "status":status, "episodes":({}) ]);

}

mapping get_or_add_series(string name, mapping database) {

   if (!database[name])
   {
       string answer = prompt_read("Add new series? [y/n]: ");
       if (answer == "y")
           watch_new_series(name, "active", database);
   }
   return database[name];

}

void watch_add(mapping database) {

   mapping episode = prompt_for_episode();
   string series_name = episode->series;
   mapping series = get_or_add_series(series_name, database);
   if (!series)
       watch_add(database);
   else
       series->episodes = Array.unshift(series->episodes, episode);

}

void watch_load() {

   db = load_db("pwatch");

}

int main(int argc, array argv) {

   watch_load();
   if (argc>1 && argv[1] == "add")
   {
       watch_add(db);
       watch_save();
   }
   else
       watch_list(db);

}</lang>

PowerShell

<lang PowerShell> function db {

   [CmdletBinding(DefaultParameterSetName="None")]
   [OutputType([PSCustomObject])]
   Param
   (
       [Parameter(Mandatory=$false,
                  Position=0,
                  ParameterSetName="Add a new entry")]
       [string]
       $Path = ".\SimpleDatabase.csv",
       [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
                  ParameterSetName="Add a new entry")]
       [string]
       $Name,
       [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
                  ParameterSetName="Add a new entry")]
       [string]
       $Category,
       [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
                  ParameterSetName="Add a new entry")]
       [datetime]
       $Birthday,
       [Parameter(ParameterSetName="Print the latest entry")]
       [switch]
       $Latest,
       [Parameter(ParameterSetName="Print the latest entry for each category")]
       [switch]
       $LatestByCategory,
       [Parameter(ParameterSetName="Print all entries sorted by a date")]
       [switch]
       $SortedByDate
   )
   if (-not (Test-Path -Path $Path))
   {
       '"Name","Category","Birthday"' | Out-File -FilePath $Path
   }
   $db = Import-Csv -Path $Path | Foreach-Object {
       $_.Birthday = $_.Birthday -as [datetime]
       $_
   }
   switch ($PSCmdlet.ParameterSetName)
   {
       "Add a new entry"
       {
           [PSCustomObject]@{Name=$Name; Category=$Category; Birthday=$Birthday} | Export-Csv -Path $Path -Append
       }
       "Print the latest entry"
       {
           $db[-1]
       }
       "Print the latest entry for each category"
       {
           ($db | Group-Object -Property Category).Name | ForEach-Object {($db | Where-Object -Property Category -Contains $_)[-1]}
       }
       "Print all entries sorted by a date"
       {
           $db | Sort-Object -Property Birthday
       }
       Default
       {
           $db
       }
   }

}

db -Name Bev -Category friend -Birthday 3/3/1983 db -Name Bob -Category family -Birthday 7/19/1987 db -Name Gill -Category friend -Birthday 12/9/1986 db -Name Gail -Category family -Birthday 2/11/1986 db -Name Vince -Category family -Birthday 3/10/1960 db -Name Wayne -Category coworker -Birthday 5/29/1962 </lang> Here is the data from the CSV file as a PowerShell Object: <lang PowerShell> db </lang>

Output:
Name  Category Birthday             
----  -------- --------             
Bev   friend   3/3/1983 12:00:00 AM 
Bob   family   7/19/1987 12:00:00 AM
Gill  friend   12/9/1986 12:00:00 AM
Gail  family   2/11/1986 12:00:00 AM
Vince family   3/10/1960 12:00:00 AM
Wayne coworker 5/29/1962 12:00:00 AM

The latest entry: <lang PowerShell> db -Latest </lang>

Output:
Name  Category Birthday             
----  -------- --------             
Wayne coworker 5/29/1962 12:00:00 AM

The latest entries by category: <lang PowerShell> db -LatestByCategory </lang>

Output:
Name  Category Birthday             
----  -------- --------             
Gill  friend   12/9/1986 12:00:00 AM
Vince family   3/10/1960 12:00:00 AM
Wayne coworker 5/29/1962 12:00:00 AM

The database sorted on the Birthday property: <lang PowerShell> db -SortedByDate </lang>

Output:
Name  Category Birthday             
----  -------- --------             
Vince family   3/10/1960 12:00:00 AM
Wayne coworker 5/29/1962 12:00:00 AM
Bev   friend   3/3/1983 12:00:00 AM 
Gail  family   2/11/1986 12:00:00 AM
Gill  friend   12/9/1986 12:00:00 AM
Bob   family   7/19/1987 12:00:00 AM

Python

<lang python>#!/usr/bin/python3

\ Simple database for: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Simple_database

import argparse from argparse import Namespace import datetime import shlex


def parse_args():

   'Set up, parse, and return arguments'
   
   parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(epilog=globals()['__doc__'])
   parser.add_argument('command', choices='add pl plc pa'.split(),
                       help=\

add: Add a new entry pl: Print the latest entry plc: Print the latest entry for each category/tag pa: Print all entries sorted by a date)

   parser.add_argument('-d', '--description',
                       help='A description of the item. (e.g., title, name)')
   parser.add_argument('-t', '--tag',
                       help=(A category or tag (genre, topic, relationship 
                             such as “friend” or “family”)))
   parser.add_argument('-f', '--field', nargs=2, action='append', 
                       help='Other optional fields with value (can be repeated)')
   return parser

def do_add(args, dbname):

   'Add a new entry'
   if args.description is None:
       args.description = 
   if args.tag is None:
       args.tag = 
   del args.command
   print('Writing record to %s' % dbname)
   with open(dbname, 'a') as db:
       db.write('%r\n' % args)
   

def do_pl(args, dbname):

   'Print the latest entry'
   print('Getting last record from %s' % dbname)
   with open(dbname, 'r') as db:
       for line in db: pass
   record = eval(line)
   del record._date
   print(str(record))
   

def do_plc(args, dbname):

   'Print the latest entry for each category/tag'
   print('Getting latest record for each tag from %s' % dbname)
   with open(dbname, 'r') as db:
       records = [eval(line) for line in db]
   tags = set(record.tag for record in records)
   records.reverse()
   for record in records:
       if record.tag in tags:
           del record._date
           print(str(record))
           tags.discard(record.tag)
           if not tags: break

def do_pa(args, dbname):

   'Print all entries sorted by a date'
   print('Getting all records by date from %s' % dbname)
   with open(dbname, 'r') as db:
       records = [eval(line) for line in db]
   for record in records:
       del record._date
       print(str(record))

def test():

   import time
   parser = parse_args()
   for cmdline in [
                   """-d Book -f title 'Windy places' -f type hardback --tag DISCOUNT add""",
                   """-d Book -f title 'RC spammers'  -f type paperback -t   DISCOUNT add""",
                   """-d Book -f title 'Splat it' -f type hardback -f special 'first edition' -t PREMIUM add""",
                   """pl""",
                   """plc""",
                   ]:
       args = parser.parse_args(shlex.split(cmdline))
       now = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
       args._date = now.isoformat()
       do_command[args.command](args, dbname)
       time.sleep(0.5)


do_command = dict(add=do_add, pl=do_pl, plc=do_plc, pa=do_pa) dbname = '_simple_db_db.py'


if __name__ == '__main__':

   if 0:
       test()
   else:
       parser = parse_args()
       args = parser.parse_args()
       now = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
       args._date = now.isoformat()
       do_command[args.command](args, dbname)</lang>
Sample session (Unix)
paddy3118:~$ ./simple_db.py -h
usage: simple_db.py [-h] [-d DESCRIPTION] [-t TAG] [-f FIELD FIELD]
                    {add,pl,plc,pa}

positional arguments:
  {add,pl,plc,pa}       add: Add a new entry pl: Print the latest entry plc:
                        Print the latest entry for each category/tag pa: Print
                        all entries sorted by a date

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d DESCRIPTION, --description DESCRIPTION
                        A description of the item. (e.g., title, name)
  -t TAG, --tag TAG     A category or tag (genre, topic, relationship such as
                        “friend” or “family”)
  -f FIELD FIELD, --field FIELD FIELD
                        Other optional fields with value (can be repeated)

Simple database for: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Simple_database
paddy3118:~$ ./simple_db.py -d Book -f title 'Windy places' -f type hardback --tag DISCOUNT add
Writing record to _simple_db_db.py
paddy3118:~$ ./simple_db.py -d Book -f title 'RC spammers'  -f type paperback -t   DISCOUNT add
Writing record to _simple_db_db.py
paddy3118:~$ ./simple_db.py -d Book -f title 'Splat it' -f type hardback -f special 'first edition' -t PREMIUM add
Writing record to _simple_db_db.py
paddy3118:~$ ./simple_db.py pl
Getting last record from _simple_db_db.py
Namespace(description='Book', field=[['title', 'Splat it'], ['type', 'hardback'], ['special', 'first edition']], tag='PREMIUM')
paddy3118:~$ ./simple_db.py plc
Getting latest record for each tag from _simple_db_db.py
Namespace(description='Book', field=[['title', 'Splat it'], ['type', 'hardback'], ['special', 'first edition']], tag='PREMIUM')
Namespace(description='Book', field=[['title', 'RC spammers'], ['type', 'paperback']], tag='DISCOUNT')
paddy3118:~$ ./simple_db.py pa
Getting all records by date from _simple_db_db.py
Namespace(description='Book', field=[['title', 'Windy places'], ['type', 'hardback']], tag='DISCOUNT')
Namespace(description='Book', field=[['title', 'RC spammers'], ['type', 'paperback']], tag='DISCOUNT')
Namespace(description='Book', field=[['title', 'Splat it'], ['type', 'hardback'], ['special', 'first edition']], tag='PREMIUM')
paddy3118:~$ 
paddy3118:~$ cat _simple_db_db.py 
Namespace(_date='2012-08-18T06:02:44.947091', description='Book', field=[['title', 'Windy places'], ['type', 'hardback']], tag='DISCOUNT')
Namespace(_date='2012-08-18T06:03:11.477429', description='Book', field=[['title', 'RC spammers'], ['type', 'paperback']], tag='DISCOUNT')
Namespace(_date='2012-08-18T06:03:34.319799', description='Book', field=[['title', 'Splat it'], ['type', 'hardback'], ['special', 'first edition']], tag='PREMIUM')
paddy3118:~$ 

Racket

<lang racket>

  1. !/usr/bin/env racket
  2. lang racket

(define (*write file data) ; write data in human readable format (sexpr/line)

 (with-output-to-file file #:exists 'replace
   (lambda () (for ([x data]) (printf "~s\n" x)))))

(define *read file->list) ; read our "human readable format"

(command-line

#:once-any
[("-a") file title category date "Add an entry"
 (*write file `(,@(*read file) (,title ,category ,date)))]
[("-d") file title "Delete an entry (all matching)"
 (*write file (filter-not (lambda (x) (equal? (car x) title)) (*read file)))]
[("-p") file mode "Print entries, mode = latest, latest/cat, all, by-date"
 (define data (*read file))
 (define (show item)
   (match item [(list title cat date) (printf "[~a] ~a; ~a\n" cat title date)]))
 (case (string->symbol mode)
   [(all) (for-each show data)]
   [(by-date) (for-each show (sort data string<? #:key cadr))]
   [(latest) (show (last data))]
   [(latest/cat)
    (define (last/cat c) (for/last ([x data] #:when (equal? c (cadr x))) x))
    (for-each (compose1 show last/cat) (remove-duplicates (map cadr data)))]
   [else (error 'sdb "bad printout mode")])])

</lang>

Sample run:

$ ./sdb -h
sdb [ <option> ... ]
 where <option> is one of
/ -a <file> <title> <category> <date> : Add an entry
| -d <file> <title> : Delete an entry (all matching)
\ -p <file> <mode> : Print entries, mode = latest, latest/cat, all
  --help, -h : Show this help
  -- : Do not treat any remaining argument as a switch (at this level)
 /|\ Brackets indicate mutually exclusive options.
 Multiple single-letter switches can be combined after one `-'; for
  example: `-h-' is the same as `-h --'
$ ./sdb -a Stuffs A-Book books 2013-01-01
$ ./sdb -a Stuffs Another-Book books 2013-01-02
$ ./sdb -a Stuffs Some-CD cds 2013-01-03
$ ./sdb -a Stuffs A-Bad-CD cds 2013-01-04
$ ./sdb -p Stuffs all
[books] A-Book; 2013-01-01
[books] Another-Book; 2013-01-02
[cds] Some-CD; 2013-01-03
[cds] A-Bad-CD; 2013-01-04
$ ./sdb -p Stuffs latest
[cds] A-Bad-CD; 2013-01-04
$ ./sdb -p Stuffs latest/cat
[books] Another-Book; 2013-01-02
[cds] A-Bad-CD; 2013-01-04
$ ./sdb -d Stuffs A-Bad-CD
$ ./sdb -p Stuffs by-date
[books] A-Book; 2013-01-01
[books] Another-Book; 2013-01-02
[cds] Some-CD; 2013-01-03

REBOL

<lang rebol>rebol [author: "Nick Antonaccio"] write/append %rdb "" db: load %rdb switch system/options/args/1 [

   "new" [write/append %rdb rejoin [now " " mold/only next system/options/args newline]]
   "latest" [print copy/part tail sort/skip db 4 -4]
   "latestcat" [
       foreach cat unique extract at db 3 4 [
           t: copy []
           foreach [a b c d] db [if c = cat [append t reduce [a b c d]]]
           print copy/part tail sort/skip t 4 -4
       ]
   ]
   "sort" [probe sort/skip db 4]

] halt</lang>

REXX

<lang rexx>/* REXX ---------------------------------------------------------------

  • 05.10.2014
  • --------------------------------------------------------------------*/

x05='05'x mydb='sidb.txt' Say 'Enter your commands, ?, or end' Do Forever

 Parse Pull l
 Parse Var l command text
 Select
   When command='?' Then
     Call help
   When command='add' Then Do
     Parse Var text item ',' category ',' date
     If date= Then
       date=date('S') /*yyyymmdd*/
     Say 'adding item' item'/'category 'dated' date
     Call lineout mydb,date item x05 category
     End
   When command='latest' Then Do
     Call lineout mydb
     Parse Var text category
     hidt='00000000'
     ol=
     Do While lines(mydb)>0
       l=linein(mydb)
       Parse Var l dt a (x05) b
       If category=|,
          category='-' & b= |,
          b=category Then Do
         If dt>>hidt Then Do
           ol=l
           hidt=dt
           End
         End
       End
       If ol> Then
         Call o ol
       Else
         Say 'no matching item found'
     End
   When command='all' Then Do
     Call lineout mydb
     Parse Var text category
     Do While lines(mydb)>0
       l=linein(mydb)
       Parse Var l a (x05) b
       If category=|,
          category='-' & b=|,
          b=category Then
         Call o l
       End
     End
   When command='end' Then
     Leave
   Otherwise Do
     Say 'invalid command ('command')'
     Call help
     End
   End
 End

Say 'Bye' Exit

o: Parse Value arg(1) With dt text

  Say left(dt,8) text
  Return

help:

 Say 'add item[,[category][,date]] to add an item'
 Say 'latest category to list the latest item of a category'
 Say 'latest to list the latest item'
 Say 'all category to list all items of a category'
 Say 'all to list all items'
 Say 'end to end this program'
 Say 'Use category - to list items without category'
 Return</lang>
Output:
   Enter your commands, ?, or end
?
   add item[,[category][,date]] to add an item
   latest category to list the latest item of a category
   latest to list the latest item
   all category to list all items of a category
   all to list all items
   end to end this program
   Use category - to list items without category
add item1
   adding item item1/ dated 20141006
add item2
   adding item item2/ dated 20141006
add item3,cat3
   adding item item3/cat3 dated 20141006
add item4,cat3,20201910
   adding item item4/cat3 dated 20201910
add item5,cat3,190201910
   adding item item5/cat3 dated 190201910
all
   20141006 item1 �
   20141006 item2 �
   20141006 item3 � cat3
   20201910 item4 � cat3
   190201910 item5 � cat3
latest
   20201910 item4 � cat3
latest cat1
   no matching item found
latest cat3
   20201910 item4 � cat3
end
   Bye

Ruby

<lang ruby>require 'date' require 'json' require 'securerandom'

class SimpleDatabase

 def initialize(dbname, *fields)
   @dbname = dbname
   @filename = @dbname + ".dat"
   @fields = fields
   @maxl = @fields.collect {|f| f.length}.max
   @data = {
     'fields' => fields,
     'items' => {},
     'history' => [],
     'tags' => {},
   }
 end
 attr_reader :dbname, :fields
 def self.open(dbname)
   db = new(dbname)
   db.read
   db
 end
 def read()
   if not File.exists?(@filename)
     raise ArgumentError, "Database #@dbname has not been created"
   end
   @data = JSON.parse(File.read(@filename))
   @fields = @data['fields']
   @maxl = @fields.collect {|f| f.length}.max
 end
 def write()
   File.open(@filename, 'w') {|f| f.write(JSON.generate(@data))}
 end
 def add(*values)
   id = SecureRandom.uuid
   @data['items'][id] = Hash[ @fields.zip(values) ]
   @data['history'] << [Time.now.to_f, id]
   id
 end
 def tag(id, *tags)
   tags.each do |tag|
     if @data['tags'][tag].nil?
       @data['tags'][tag] = [id]
     else
       @data['tags'][tag] << id
     end
   end
   id
 end
 def latest
   @data['history'].sort_by {|val| val[0]}.last.last
 end
 def get_item(id)
   @data['items'][id]
 end
 def tags()
   @data['tags'].keys.sort
 end
 def ids_for_tag(tag)
   @data['tags'][tag]
 end
 def tags_for_id(id)
   @data['tags'].keys.inject([]) do |tags, tag| 
     tags << tag if @data['tags'][tag].include?(id)
     tags
   end
 end
 def display(id)
   item = get_item(id)
   fmt = "%#{@maxl}s - %s\n"
   puts fmt % ['id', id]
   @fields.each {|f| print fmt % [f, item[f]]}
   puts fmt % ['tags', tags_for_id(id).join(',')]
   added = @data['history'].find {|x| x[1] == id}.first
   puts fmt % ['date added', Time.at(added).ctime]
   puts ""
 end
 def each()
   @data['history'].each {|time, id| yield id}
 end
 def each_item_with_tag(tag)
   @data['tags'][tag].each {|id| yield id}
 end

end def usage()

 puts <<END

usage: #{$0} command args ...

commands:

 help 
 create dbname field ...
 fields dbname
 add dbname value ...
 tag dbname id tag ...
 tags dbname
 list dbname [tag ...]
 latest dbname
 latest_by_tag dbname

END end

def open_database(args)

 dbname = args.shift
 begin
   SimpleDatabase.open(dbname)
 rescue ArgumentError => e
   STDERR.puts e.message
   exit 1
 end

end

def process_command_line(command, *args)

 case command
 when 'help'
   usage
 when 'create'
   db = SimpleDatabase.new(*args)
   db.write
   puts "Database #{args[0]} created"
 when 'fields'
   db = open_database(args)
   puts "Database #{db.dbname} fields:"
   puts db.fields.join(',')
 when 'add'
   db = open_database(args)
   id = db.add(*args)
   db.write
   puts "Database #{db.dbname} added id #{id}"
 when 'tag'
   db = open_database(args)
   id = args.shift
   db.tag(id, *args)
   db.write
   db.display(id)
   
 when 'tags'
   db = open_database(args)
   puts "Database #{db.dbname} tags:"
   puts db.tags.join(',')
 when 'list'
   db = open_database(args)
   if args.empty?
     db.each {|id| db.display(id)}
   else
     args.each do |tag| 
       puts "Items tagged #{tag}"
       db.each_item_with_tag(tag) {|id| db.display(id)}
     end
   end
 when 'latest'
   db = open_database(args)
   db.display(db.latest)
 when 'latest_by_tag'
   db = open_database(args)
   db.tags.each do |tag|
     puts tag
     db.display(db.ids_for_tag(tag).last)
   end
 else
   puts "Error: unknown command '#{command}'"
   usage
 end

end

process_command_line *ARGV</lang>

Sample session

$ ruby simple_database.rb create appointments event_title start_time stop_time location event_description
Database appointments created
$ ruby simple_database.rb add appointments "Wife's Birthday" "2011-11-01" "2011-11-01" "" "happy 39th"
Database appointments added id 6dd02195-1efe-40d1-b43e-c2efd852cd1d
$ ruby simple_database.rb tag appointments 6dd02195-1efe-40d1-b43e-c2efd852cd1d birthday family
               id - 6dd02195-1efe-40d1-b43e-c2efd852cd1d
      event_title - Wife's Birthday
       start_time - 2011-11-01
        stop_time - 2011-11-01
         location -
event_description - happy 39th
             tags - birthday,family
       date added - Thu Nov  3 15:52:31 2011

$ ruby simple_database.rb add appointments "Parent-Teacher Conference" "2011-11-03 19:30" "2011-11-03 20:00" "school" "desc"
Database appointments added id 0190b835-401d-42da-9ed3-1d335d27b83c
$ ruby simple_database.rb tag appointments 0190b835-401d-42da-9ed3-1d335d27b83c school family
               id - 0190b835-401d-42da-9ed3-1d335d27b83c
      event_title - Parent-Teacher Conference
       start_time - 2011-11-03 19:30
        stop_time - 2011-11-03 20:00
         location - school
event_description - desc
             tags - family,school
       date added - Thu Nov  3 15:54:05 2011

$ ruby simple_database.rb add appointments "Buy gift for wife" "2011-10-31 16:00" "2011-10-31 16:30" "the mall" "hmm, maybe jewelery?"
Database appointments added id 4023e6f1-bcc1-49e5-a59f-138157b413f4
$ ruby simple_database.rb tag appointments 4023e6f1-bcc1-49e5-a59f-138157b413f4 family last-minute
               id - 4023e6f1-bcc1-49e5-a59f-138157b413f4
      event_title - Buy gift for wife
       start_time - 2011-10-31 16:00
        stop_time - 2011-10-31 16:30
         location - the mall
event_description - hmm, maybe jewelery?
             tags - family,last-minute
       date added - Thu Nov  3 15:55:02 2011

$ ruby simple_database.rb fields appointments
Database appointments fields:
event_title,start_time,stop_time,location,event_description
$ ruby simple_database.rb tags appointments
Database appointments tags:
birthday,family,last-minute,school
$ ruby simple_database.rb list appointments
               id - 6dd02195-1efe-40d1-b43e-c2efd852cd1d
      event_title - Wife's Birthday
       start_time - 2011-11-01
        stop_time - 2011-11-01
         location -
event_description - happy 39th
             tags - birthday,family
       date added - Thu Nov  3 15:52:31 2011

               id - 0190b835-401d-42da-9ed3-1d335d27b83c
      event_title - Parent-Teacher Conference
       start_time - 2011-11-03 19:30
        stop_time - 2011-11-03 20:00
         location - school
event_description - desc
             tags - family,school
       date added - Thu Nov  3 15:54:05 2011

               id - 4023e6f1-bcc1-49e5-a59f-138157b413f4
      event_title - Buy gift for wife
       start_time - 2011-10-31 16:00
        stop_time - 2011-10-31 16:30
         location - the mall
event_description - hmm, maybe jewelery?
             tags - family,last-minute
       date added - Thu Nov  3 15:55:02 2011
$ cat appointments.dat
{"fields":["event_title","start_time","stop_time","location","event_description"],"items":{"6dd02195-1efe-40d1-b43e-c2efd852cd1d":{"event_title":"Wife's Birthday","start_time":"2011-11-01","stop_time":"2011-11-01","location":"","event_description":"happy 39th"},"0190b835-401d-42da-9ed3-1d335d27b83c":{"event_title":"Parent-Teacher Conference","start_time":"2011-11-03 19:30","stop_time":"2011-11-03 20:00","location":"school","event_description":"desc"},"4023e6f1-bcc1-49e5-a59f-138157b413f4":{"event_title":"Buy gift for wife","start_time":"2011-10-31 16:00","stop_time":"2011-10-31 16:30","location":"the mall","event_description":"hmm, maybe jewelery?"}},"history":[[1320349951.000625,"6dd02195-1efe-40d1-b43e-c2efd852cd1d"],[1320350045.4736252,"0190b835-401d-42da-9ed3-1d335d27b83c"],[1320350102.9486248,"4023e6f1-bcc1-49e5-a59f-138157b413f4"]],"tags":{"birthday":["6dd02195-1efe-40d1-b43e-c2efd852cd1d"],"family":["6dd02195-1efe-40d1-b43e-c2efd852cd1d","0190b835-401d-42da-9ed3-1d335d27b83c","4023e6f1-bcc1-49e5-a59f-138157b413f4"],"school":["0190b835-401d-42da-9ed3-1d335d27b83c"],"last-minute":["4023e6f1-bcc1-49e5-a59f-138157b413f4"]}}

Run BASIC

<lang runbasic>sqliteconnect #sql, "f:\client.db" ' Connect to the DB

' ------------------------------- ' show user options ' ------------------------------- [sho] cls ' clear screen button #acd, "Add a new entry", [add] button #acd, "Print the latest entry", [last] button #acd, "Print the latest entry for each category", [lastCat] button #acd, "Print all entries sorted by a date", [date] button #ex, "Exit", [exit] wait

' ------------------------------------ ' add a new entry (user input screen) ' ------------------------------------ [add] cls ' clear the screen

html "

" html "" html "
Client Maintenance
Client Num"
      textbox #clientNum,clientNum$,5
html "
Name"
    textbox #name,name$,30
html "
Client Date"
    textbox #clientDate,clientDate$,19
html "
Category"
    textbox #category,category$,10
html "
"
    button #acd, "Add", [addIt]
    button #ex, "Exit", [sho]
html "

"

wait

' --------------------------------------------- ' Get data from the screen ' --------------------------------------------- [addIt] clientNum = #clientNum contents$() name$ = trim$(#name contents$()) clientDate$ = trim$(#clientDate contents$()) category$ = trim$(#category contents$()) dbVals$ = clientNum;",'";name$;"','";clientDate$;"','";category$;"'" sql$ = "INSERT into client VALUES ("; dbVals$ ; ")"

  1. sql execute(sql$)

goto [sho]

' ------------------------------------ ' Select last entry ' ------------------------------------ [last] sql$ = "SELECT *,client.rowid as rowid FROM client ORDER BY rowid desc LIMIT 1" what$ = "---- Last Entry ----" goto [shoQuery]

' ------------------------------------ ' Select by category (Last date only) ' ------------------------------------ [lastCat] sql$ = "SELECT * FROM client WHERE client.clientDate = (SELECT max(c.clientDate) FROM client as c WHERE c.category = client.category) ORDER BY category" what$ = "---- Last Category Sequence ----" goto [shoQuery]

' ------------------------------------ ' Select by date ' ------------------------------------ [date] sql$ = "SELECT * FROM client ORDER BY clientDate" what$ = "---- By Date ----"

[shoQuery] cls print what$

html "

" html "" ' heading
  1. sql execute(sql$)

WHILE #sql hasanswer()

 #row = #sql #nextrow()
 clientNum	= #row clientNum()
 name$		= #row name$()
 clientDate$	= #row clientDate$()
 category$	= #row category$()
html ""

WEND

html "
Client
Num
NameClient
Date
Category
";clientNum;"";name$;"";clientDate$;"";category$;"

"

button #c, "Continue", [sho] wait

' ------ the end ------- [exit] end</lang> Output:


User Input ----

Client Maintenance
Client Num5
NameDawnridge Winery
Client Date2008-06-18 22:16
Categorywine
[Add] [Exit]

Last Entry ----

Client
Num
NameClient
Date
Category
5Dawnridge Winery2008-06-18 22:16wine

Last category Sequence ----

Client
Num
NameClient
Date
Category
1Home Sales2012-01-01 10;20broker
4Back 40 Equipment2009-09-18 20:18farm
3Floral Designs2010-10-14 09:16flowers
2Best Foods2011-02-02 12:33food
5Dawnridge Winery2008-06-18 22:16wine

Date Sequence ----

Client
Num
NameClient
Date
Category
5Dawnridge Winery2008-06-18 22;16wine
4Back 40 Equipment2009-09-18 20:18farm
3Floral Designs2010-10-14 09:16flowers
2Best Foods2011-02-02 12:33food
1Home Sales2012-01-01 10:20broker

Scala

<lang Scala>object SimpleDatabase extends App {

 type Entry = Array[String]
 def asTSV(e: Entry) = e mkString "\t"
 def fromTSV(s: String) = s split "\t"
 val header = asTSV(Array("TIMESTAMP", "DESCRIPTION", "CATEGORY", "OTHER"))
 def read(filename: String) = try {
   scala.io.Source.fromFile(filename).getLines.drop(1).map(fromTSV)
 } catch {
   case e: java.io.FileNotFoundException => Nil
 }
 def write(filename: String, all: Seq[Entry]) = {
   import java.nio.file.{Files,Paths}
   import scala.collection.JavaConversions.asJavaIterable
   Files.write(Paths.get(filename), asJavaIterable(header +: all.map(asTSV)))
   all.size
 }
 def add(filename: String, description: String, category: String = "none", optional: Seq[String] = Nil) {
   val format = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")
   val e = Array(format.format(new java.util.Date), description, category) ++ optional
   println(write(filename, read(filename).toBuffer :+ e) + " entries")
 }
 def print(filename: String, filter: Seq[Entry] => TraversableOnce[Entry]) =
   filter(read(filename).toList.sortBy(_.headOption)) map(_ mkString ",") foreach println
 args match {
   case Array(f, "latest") => print(f, _ takeRight 1)
   case Array(f, "latest", cat) => print(f, _ filter(_.lift(2) == Some(cat)) takeRight 1)
   case Array(f, "all") => print(f, _.toSeq)
   case Array(f, "all", "latest") => print(f, _ groupBy (_ lift 2 getOrElse "") map{case (_, cat) => cat.last})
   case Array(f, "add", desc) => add(f, desc, category = "")
   case Array(f, "add", desc, cat, opt @ _*) => add(f, desc, cat, opt)
   case _ => println("Usage: SimpleDatabase filename.tsv [all [latest]| latest [CATEGORY] | add [DESCRIPTION [CATEGORY [OPTIONAL]...]]]")
 }

}</lang>

Output:
> SimpleDatabase
Usage: SimpleDatabase filename.tsv [all [latest]| latest [CATEGORY] | add [DESCRIPTION [CATEGORY [OPTIONAL]...]]]

> SimpleDatabase database.tsv all

> SimpleDatabase database.tsv add one
1 entries

> SimpleDatabase database.tsv add two test
2 entries

> SimpleDatabase database.tsv add three test optional
3 entries

> SimpleDatabase database.tsv add four final
4 entries

> SimpleDatabase database.tsv all
2014-10-03 12:00:01,one
2014-10-03 12:00:02,two,test
2014-10-03 12:00:03,three,test,optional
2014-10-03 12:00:04,four,final

> SimpleDatabase database.tsv all latest
2014-10-03 12:00:04,four,final
2014-10-03 12:00:03,three,test,optional
2014-10-03 12:00:01,one

> SimpleDatabase database.tsv latest
2014-10-03 12:00:04,four,final

> SimpleDatabase database.tsv latest test
2014-10-03 12:00:03,three,test,optional

Tcl

The format used is that of a Tcl dictionary, where each entry uses the title as a key and the remaining information (category, date and miscellaneous metadata) is the value associated with it. The only variation from the standard internal format is that entries are separated by newlines instead of spaces; this is still a legal value, but is a non-canonical. <lang tcl>#!/usr/bin/env tclsh8.6 package require Tcl 8.6 namespace eval udb {

   variable db {}
   proc Load {filename} {

variable db if {[catch {set f [open $filename]}]} { set db {} return } set db [read $f] close $f

   }
   proc Store {filename} {

variable db if {[catch {set f [open $filename w]}]} return dict for {nm inf} $db { puts $f [list $nm $inf] } close $f

   }
   proc add {title category {date "now"} args} {

variable db if {$date eq "now"} { set date [clock seconds] } else { set date [clock scan $date] } dict set db $title [list $category $date $args] return

   }
   proc Rec {nm cat date xtra} {

dict create description $nm category $cat date [clock format $date] \ {*}$xtra _names [dict keys $xtra]

   }
   proc latest Template:Category "" {

variable db if {$category eq ""} { set d [lsort -stride 2 -index {1 1} -integer -decreasing $db] dict for {nm inf} $d break return [list [Rec $nm {*}$inf]] } set latestbycat {} dict for {nm inf} [lsort -stride 2 -index {1 1} -integer $db] { dict set latestbycat [lindex $inf 0] [list $nm {*}$inf] } return [list [Rec {*}[dict get $latestbycat $category]]]

   }
   proc latestpercategory {} {

variable db set latestbycat {} dict for {nm inf} [lsort -stride 2 -index {1 1} -integer $db] { dict set latestbycat [lindex $inf 0] [list $nm {*}$inf] } set result {} dict for {- inf} $latestbycat { lappend result [Rec {*}$inf] } return $result

   }
   proc bydate {} {

variable db set result {} dict for {nm inf} [lsort -stride 2 -index {1 1} -integer $db] { lappend result [Rec $nm {*}$inf] } return $result

   }
   namespace export add latest latestpercategory bydate
   namespace ensemble create 

}

if {$argc < 2} {

   puts stderr "wrong # args: should be \"$argv0 dbfile subcommand ?args...?\""
   exit 1

} udb::Load [lindex $argv 0] set separator "" if {[catch {udb {*}[lrange $argv 1 end]} msg]} {

   puts stderr [regsub "\"udb " $msg "\"$argv0 dbfile "]
   exit 1

} foreach row $msg {

   puts -nonewline $separator
   apply {row {

dict with row { puts "Title: $description" puts "Category: $category" puts "Date: $date" foreach v $_names { puts "${v}: [dict get $row $v]" } }

   }} $row
   set separator [string repeat - 70]\n

}

udb::Store [lindex $argv 0]</lang> Sample session: <lang bash>bash$ udb.tcl db wrong # args: should be "udb.tcl dbfile subcommand ?args...?" bash$ udb.tcl db ? unknown or ambiguous subcommand "?": must be add, bydate, latest, or latestpercategory bash$ udb.tcl db add wrong # args: should be "udb.tcl dbfile add title category ?date? ?arg ...?" bash$ udb.tcl db add "Title 1" foo bash$ udb.tcl db add "Title 2" foo bash$ udb.tcl db add "Title 3" bar bash$ udb.tcl db bydate Title: Title 1 Category: foo Date: Tue Nov 15 18:11:58 GMT 2011


Title: Title 2 Category: foo Date: Tue Nov 15 18:12:01 GMT 2011


Title: Title 3 Category: bar Date: Tue Nov 15 18:12:07 GMT 2011 bash$ udb.tcl db latest Title: Title 3 Category: bar Date: Tue Nov 15 18:12:07 GMT 2011 bash$ udb.tcl db latest foo Title: Title 2 Category: foo Date: Tue Nov 15 18:12:01 GMT 2011 bash$ udb.tcl db latest bar Title: Title 3 Category: bar Date: Tue Nov 15 18:12:07 GMT 2011 bash$ udb.tcl db latestpercategory Title: Title 2 Category: foo Date: Tue Nov 15 18:12:01 GMT 2011


Title: Title 3 Category: bar Date: Tue Nov 15 18:12:07 GMT 2011 bash$ udb.tcl db add "Title 4" bar "12:00 Monday last week" bash$ udb.tcl db bydate Title: Title 4 Category: bar Date: Mon Nov 14 12:00:00 GMT 2011


Title: Title 1 Category: foo Date: Tue Nov 15 18:11:58 GMT 2011


Title: Title 2 Category: foo Date: Tue Nov 15 18:12:01 GMT 2011


Title: Title 3 Category: bar Date: Tue Nov 15 18:12:07 GMT 2011 bash$ cat db {Title 1} {foo 1321380718 {}} {Title 2} {foo 1321380721 {}} {Title 3} {bar 1321380727 {}} {Title 4} {bar 1321272000 {}} bash$ udb.tcl db add "Title 5" foo "12:00 Monday last week" Comment 'Wholly excellent!' bash$ cat db {Title 1} {foo 1321380718 {}} {Title 2} {foo 1321380721 {}} {Title 3} {bar 1321380727 {}} {Title 4} {bar 1321272000 {}} {Title 5} {foo 1321272000 {Comment {Wholly excellent!}}} bash$ udb.tcl db bydate Title: Title 4 Category: bar Date: Mon Nov 14 12:00:00 GMT 2011


Title: Title 5 Category: foo Date: Mon Nov 14 12:00:00 GMT 2011 Comment: Wholly excellent!


Title: Title 1 Category: foo Date: Tue Nov 15 18:11:58 GMT 2011


Title: Title 2 Category: foo Date: Tue Nov 15 18:12:01 GMT 2011


Title: Title 3 Category: bar Date: Tue Nov 15 18:12:07 GMT 2011</lang>

ToffeeScript

<lang coffeescript>#!/usr/local/bin/toffee

prog = require 'commander' fs = require 'fs-extra'

if not fs.exists! 'data.json'

 fs.outputJson! 'data.json', {}

prog

 .command('add <name> <category> [date]')
 .description('Add a new entry')
 .option('-n <text>', 'notes')
 .option('-t <tags>', 'tags')
 .action addentry

prog

 .command('latest')
 .description('Print the latest entry')
 .action latest

prog

 .command('catlatest')
 .description('Print the latest entry for each category')
 .action catlatestout

prog

 .command('list')
 .description('Print all entries sorted by date')
 .action bydate


addentry = (name, category, dt, options) ->

 if dt? then dat = new Date(dt) else dat = new Date()
 update =
   name: name
   category: category
   tags: options?.T
   notes: options?.N
   date: dat.getTime()
 e, data = fs.readJson! 'data.json'
 if not data[category]?
   data[category] = []
 data[category].push update
 fs.outputJson 'data.json', data

byDateNew = (a, b) ->

 if a.date<b.date then return 1
 if b.date>a.date then return -1
 return 0

catlatest = (cb) ->

 e, data = fs.readJson! 'data.json'
 ret = []
 for cat, list of data
   list.sort byDateNew
   ret.push list[0]
 cb ret

printFormatted = (entry) ->

 tmp = entry.date
 entry.date = new Date(entry.date).toDateString()
 console.log entry
 entry.date = tmp

latest = ->

 newpercat = catlatest!
 newpercat.sort byDateNew
 printFormatted newpercat[0]

catlatestout = ->

 items = catlatest!
 for item in items
   printFormatted item

bydate = ->

 e, data = fs.readJson! 'data.json'
 entries = []
 for cat, list of data
   for item in list
     entries.push item
 entries.sort byDateNew
 for entry in entries
   printFormatted entry

prog.parse process.argv</lang>

UNIX Shell

This format is guaranteed to be human readable: if you can type it, you can read it. <lang bash>#!/bin/sh

db_create() { mkdir ./"$1" && mkdir "./$1/.tag" && echo "Create DB \`$1'" }

db_delete() { rm -r ./"$1" && echo "Delete DB \`$1'" }

db_show() { if [ -z "$2" ]; then show_help; fi for x in "./$1/$2/"*; do echo "$x:" | sed "s/.*\///" cat "$x" | sed "s/^/ /" echo done

printf "Tags: " ls "./$1/$2/.tag" }

db_tag() { local db="$1" item="$2" shift shift for tag in $@; do mkdir "./$db/.tag/$tag" ln -s "$PWD/$db/$item" "./$db/.tag/$tag/" touch "./$db/$item/.tag/$tag" done }

show_help() { echo "Usage: $0 command [args]" echo "Commands:" cat $0 | grep ") ##" | grep -v grep | sed 's/) ## /:\t/' exit }

if [ -z "$1" ]; then show_help; fi

action=$1 it=database shift case $action in create) ## db -- create $it db_create "$@" ;;

drop) ## db -- delete $it db_delete "$@" ;;

add) ## db item -- add new item to $it mkdir -p "./$1/$2/.tag" && touch "./$1/$2/Description" ;;

rem) ## db item -- delete item from $it rm -r "./$1/$2" rm "./$1/.tag/"*"/$2" ;;

show) ## db item -- show item db_show "$@" ;;

newtag) ## db new-tag-name -- create new tag name mkdir "./$1/.tag/$2" ;;

prop) ## db item property-name property-content -- add property to item echo "$4" > "./$1/$2/$3" ;;

tag) ## db item tag [more-tags...] -- mark item with tags db_tag "$@" ;;

last) ## db -- show latest item ls "$1" --sort=time | tail -n 1 ;;

list) ## db -- list all items ls "$1" -1 --sort=time ;;

last-all) ## db -- list items in each category for x in "$1/.tag/"*; do echo "$x" | sed 's/.*\//Tag: /' printf " " ls "$x" --sort=time | tail -n 1 echo done ;;

help) ## this message show_help ;;

*) echo Bad DB command: $1 show_help ;; esac</lang> Sample usage (assuming script is named "sdb"):<lang>$ sdb create CDs Create DB `CDs' $ sdb add CDs Bookends $ sdb prop CDs Bookends artists "Simon & Garfunkel" $ sdb add CDs "Ode to joy" $ sdb prop CDs "Ode to joy" artist "Beethoven" $ sdb tag CDs Bookends rock folk # I'm not sure about this $ sdb tag CDs "Ode to joy" classical $ sdb show CDs Bookends Description:

artists:

   Simon & Garfunkel

Tags: folk rock $ sdb prop CDs "Ode to joy" Description "Sym. No. 9" $ sdb show CDs "Ode to joy" Description:

   Sym. No. 9

artist:

   Beethoven

Tags: classical $ sdb last-all CDs Tag: classical

   Ode to joy

Tag: folk

   Bookends

Tag: rock

   Bookends

$ sdb drop CDs Delete DB `CDs' $</lang>