Hi, thanks for replying.

The input file ($tmp_file) was built earlier in this same script by reading yet another file and extracting the needed fields. Here's the code that reads the original file and writes $tmp_file:
open FILE,"<$file";
open OUTFILE, ">$tmp_file";
while (<FILE>) {
    s/^ +//;
    s/ +$//;
    s/ +/,/g;
    ($bin,$tid,$len)=split /,/;
    $bin = '0'x(6-length($bin)).$bin if length($bin) < 6;
    $tid=substr($tid,-$len,$len);
    print OUTFILE "$bin\t$tid\n";
}
close OUTFILE;

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The $tmp_file has a tab character between the two fields, $bin and $tid.

Also, the database table being BCP'd into has two columns, bin is varchar(12) and tid is varchar(24).

In reply to Re^2: Sybase::BCP by jilltw
in thread Sybase::BCP by jilltw

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