I thought someone mentioned this yesterday, but the following:

$Command = "EXEC ".$SPROC." ".$CHOICE[1].", "
           . $CHOICE[2].", ".$CHOICE[3].", "
           . $CHOICE[4].", ".$CHOICE[5].", "
           . $CHOICE[6].", ".$CHOICE[7].", "
           . $CHOICE[8].", ".$CHOICE[9].", "
           . $CHOICE[10].", ".$CHOICE[11].", "
           . $CHOICE[12].", ".$CHOICE[13].", "
           . $CHOICE[14].", ".$CHOICE[15].", "
           . $CHOICE[16].", ".$CHOICE[17].", "
           . $CHOICE[18].", ".$CHOICE[19].", "
           . $CHOICE[20].", ".$CHOICE[21].", "
           . $CHOICE[22].", ".$CHOICE[23].", "
           .$CHOICE[24].", ".$CHOICE[25].", "
           .$CHOICE[26].";";

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(What a mess) ...can be replaced by any of a number of clearer idioms, including:

$command = "EXEC $SPROC " . join( ', ', @CHOICE[ 1 .. 26 ] ) . ';';

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Isn't that nicer? By the way, where's $CHOICE[0]?


Dave

In reply to Re: Flat file handling by davido
in thread Flat file handling by Win

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