Xy as database handler?

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Being renewedly impressed with the extraction possibilities of things of
the form: , I'm considering using Xy to do primitive database
operations--probably using commas as field separators, and  as record
separators.
But to do this, I'd have to have some nifty, economical way to change the
contents of a field. All I can think of, however, is a clunky DL (define
line) and series of SE/S /,/ followed by more defines.

Is there a better way?

TIA,
Harry


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx