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a) Ack, what I the name of all that is holy takes 1200 lines of SQL? IANASG, but good god, that's a lot of stuff man!

b) Nope, not uml, just a plain ole' flow chart. UML is more a class inheritance/interface kinda thing. Java guys like it, so you know...

c) Doesn't the name kinda give it away? $pipecount get the scalar return value of tr, which is the number of things it translated, namely pipe chars, and since there is no translation rule, tr will just leave them alone (or maybe just blindly exchange them for the same thing, not really sure)

which brings me to
d) Camel is your friend, fellow monks are your other friends. Bog through, and if you get stuck, ask with some nice snipets.

which brings me to
e) This will probably a rather time consumeing endeavor, so if it really is your job on the line, it may be hack now, understand a little later time.

Good luck, hope it isn't really your job on the line (Not that I think it's impossible or you can't do it, but I know it wouldn't help me work if it was)

'The fickle fascination of and Everlasting God' - Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Re: Re: Seeking advice about learning another's code
by E-Bitch (Pilgrim) on Aug 02, 2001 at 03:11 UTC
    ++all by the way!
    I havent dove into the sql yet.
    Java is kinda the only "offical" language around here if ya know what I mean.
    $pipecount does give it away, but I was kinda curious how it did it (and it was an example too... guess that should been a "thing I could figure out", huh?)
    da job isnt on the line, but possible reputation points are... as an intern, I get a buffer, but I dont want to use it yet.
    Thanks for All the help guys (and ladies...)!


    thanks!
    E-Bitch
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Re: Re: Seeking advice about learning another's code
by Everlasting God (Beadle) on Aug 02, 2001 at 03:16 UTC
    wrong place, please ignore and delete
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      Nope, I'm in Broomfield, CO. The perl I have written is incredibly useful, but that whole, "we have to use java" thing kinda prevents any high level uses of anything else. All our database access that I have done have been JSPs/servlets.

      thanks!
      E-Bitch
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