Using Tables Instead of Files in Client Programs

5 Using Tables Instead of Files in Client Programs 

A traditional client program reads from a molecular structure file and performs some computation that depends on the molecular structural data. This read(file) function reads particular columns or fields from the file. A different function would be necessary for each type of file format. A traditional client program can be modified to read molecular structure data from 

Once methods like these are in place, they readily replace traditional read statements. RDBMS access methods are available for almost every programming language, not just python as in this example. These were discussed in Chapter 5. 

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