Ah but you're missing command line editing!

I've actually writen a few isql clones in perl, including one that was left as an exercise for my students :-)

I just found the following - written for perl 4/sybperl 1.xx, with a last modified date of Feb 22, 1994:

#!/usr/local/bin/sybperl

require 'sybperl.pl';
require 'getopts.pl';

&Getopts('P:U:');

&dblogin($opt_U, $opt_P);

select(STDOUT); $| = 1;        # set unbuffered

$count = 1;
print "$count> ";

while(<>)
{
    /^exit|^quit/ && exit(0);
    /^go/ && do {
    &exec;
    $count = 1;
    print "$count> ";
    next;
    };
    
    &dbcmd($_);
    ++$count;
    print "$count> ";
}

sub exec
{
    local($ret, $numcol, $i);
    local(@dat, %width);
    
    &dbsqlexec;
    while(($ret = &dbresults) != $NO_MORE_RESULTS)
    {
    $numcol = &dbnumcols;
    for($i = 1; $i <= $numcol; ++$i)
    {
        $width{$i} = &dbcollen(0, $i);
        printf("%-$width{$i}.$width{$i}s ",  &dbcolname(0, $i));
    }
    print "\n\n";
    while(@dat = &dbnextrow)
    {
        for($i = 1; $i <= $numcol; ++$i)
        {
        printf("%$width{$i}.$width{$i}s ",  $dat[$i-1]);
        }
        print "\n";
    }
    while(@dat = &dbretdata)
    {
        print "@dat\n";
    }
    }
}
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I think I used that for my presentation at the 1994 Sybase User Group conference. I have a feeling I'd write that a little bit differently today :-)

Michael

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