hey.

i'm wondering if there is a function for perl that will take a string suchas:

$string = "(+goat -boy) +hair"
and an array of column names like
@cols = qw(t1.c1 t1.c5 r1.c8 ...)
and construct a the conditional part of an sql query from that. so that $cond in
'select * from t1 where $cond'
looks something like:

$cond ="
(t1.c1='goat' not t1.c1='boy') and t1.c1='hair' or
(t1.c5='goat' not t1.c5='boy') and t1.c5='hair' or
(t1.c8='goat' not t1.c8='boy') and t1.c8='hair' ... "

In reply to converting boolean strings into conditions for database queries by a_login

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