Using the dbm libraries correctly...

[Darren Swartzendruber]

I have been trying to use the dbm libraries provided on my
system to index a file, but since documentaion is sketchy
at best, I thought I'd give it try here.

For starters, I am on a 4.2BSD box.

I have been able to write a quick index and search problem
using the library libndbm.a.  The problem is that what I
want to do is search for a key and have EVERY occurrance of
that key printed.  I am trying to index text, where the key
is a word and its contents is the sentence the word occurs in.

For example, I search for the word "the" (now I really wouldn't
do that, but this is an example).  I would like every sentence 
that the word "the" occurs in to be printed.  Right now, all
I get is the first occurance and that is it.  I have even dumped
out all the keys in the db and notice that keys only appear once,
even if the word occurs 100 times in the text that I indexed.

I anyone can help me, I'd be appreciative.  We can continue
via e-mail.

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