Divide and conquer, take baby steps, whatever you want to call it, go after seemingly huge projects in small chunks. On Thursday, those of us in the US won't be trying to eat the whole turkey in one bite. We cut off a peice at a time and slowly pick away at it.

What makes Perl so cool is that most of the chunks have already been taken care of for us in modules. Check out the following modules if you haven't already:

If I were you, I'd first try getting a script to connect to a database. There are plenty of examples out there for you. Once I got that working, I'd try to select and print out some data. Then, I'd work on inserting/updating some data, etc.

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Washizu
The best offense is a good offense.

In reply to Re: Over my head by Washizu
in thread Over my head by single23

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