Re: Perl programmer needed
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texte = Aaron Lynch wrote: > Preprocess the crap database from the NWMLS, and put it into a tab file. > Buy Programming Perl and Perl Cookbook from O'Reilly and go for it. If you want to store the data in SQL, get Programming the Perl DBI from O'Reilly as well. I suspect you can do most of what you want with something like this: use Text::ParseWords; open NWMLS, mlsfile.txt; # this file is quote/comma delimited, right? while(
) { my ($field1,$field2,...name them something useful...,$field150) = quotewords(,,0,$_); # do something useful with the fields here }HTHJohnp.s. No, you can't afford me! ;~)-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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Aaron Lynch wrote: > Preprocess the crap database from the NWMLS, and put it into a tab file. > Buy Programming Perl and Perl Cookbook from O'Reilly and go for it. If you want to store the data in SQL, get Programming the Perl DBI from O'Reilly as well. I suspect you can do most of what you want with something like this: use Text::ParseWords; open NWMLS, mlsfile.txt; # this file is quote/comma delimited, right? while() { my ($field1,$field2,...name them something useful...,$field150) = quotewords(,,0,$_); # do something useful with the fields here }HTHJohnp.s. No, you can't afford me! ;~)-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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