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Anyone here know much about Perl?
We have to work with a lot of data files here, usually delimited text database files, sometimes Foxpro, etc. My boss was asking if I would be interested in writing some Perl programs to interrogate files as opposed to opening them in text editors. Give us date range information, column counts, and such. It would work a lot faster than opening these large files in viewers. I guess the place my boss worked before here had such tools.
Anyway, anyone ever heard of something like this? Any comments, websites, etc? I've done my fair share of programming before but only have basic Perl knowledge at this time.
We have to work with a lot of data files here, usually delimited text database files, sometimes Foxpro, etc. My boss was asking if I would be interested in writing some Perl programs to interrogate files as opposed to opening them in text editors. Give us date range information, column counts, and such. It would work a lot faster than opening these large files in viewers. I guess the place my boss worked before here had such tools.
Anyway, anyone ever heard of something like this? Any comments, websites, etc? I've done my fair share of programming before but only have basic Perl knowledge at this time.
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My anti-spam program is written in perl. It has nice performance but it is an aging language that doesn't get much support anymore. I'd personally rather deal with data mining and such in SQL but like I said it is a pretty decent language. I'm no pro by any means though.
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Wow! Perl!!
I haven't thought about Perl is many, many years.
Nearly every free script to build websites, from chat rooms to guest books to forums (at one point, everything interactive on F150online.com was written in Perl), was written in Perl. From what I've been told by UNIX admins, there is still nothing better to read and manipulate text files...
O'Reilly is a great source for Perl information...
I haven't thought about Perl is many, many years.
Nearly every free script to build websites, from chat rooms to guest books to forums (at one point, everything interactive on F150online.com was written in Perl), was written in Perl. From what I've been told by UNIX admins, there is still nothing better to read and manipulate text files...
O'Reilly is a great source for Perl information...