Curious if there are modules to import delimnited text into, say, mysql (didn't find much on CPAN). Something like this, where $dbh is a DBI object linked to some database:

$schema=<<EOF;
`Name` VARCHAR(32) PRIMARY KEY,
`Address` VARCHAR(256) NOT NULL,
`Phone` VARCHAR(16) NOT NULL,
`Comment` VARCHAR(80)
EOF

importTextIntoDBI(
    $dbh,
    'myTable.txt',
    delimiter=>"\t",
    tableName=>'myTable',
    schema=>$schema,
    firstline=>2, # Skip header
    checkMissing=>[0..2], # Make sure first 3 columns are not missing,
    checkPattern=>[undef,undef,$phoneRegexp,under] # Check formats
);

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There's Text::Delimited for example, but I didn't see support for missing values and format checking. Maybe there are other modules that do the parsing, checking, etc, on a delimited file to create a "clean" object that's ready to be imported into DBI?

In reply to Re: Importing text files with DBI by RockM66
in thread Importing text files with DBI by Win

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