We had the worst severity 1 problem I had ever seen. Last Friday, for some reason, our database was down, and the main business of the company could be seriously impacted.

One of our main business is store ordering. On one end, the orders are usually loaded into H.Q. database through flat files coming from stores. On the other end, the database outputs flat files and then feeds legacy warehouse system.

With the database down, obviously we lost all the nice functionality provided by our main application. After some brainstorming, we agreed upon an alternative under emergency: to directly transform the store flat files into flat files that can be recognized by the warehouse system.

Now here comes the great opportunity for Perl. In a Java/c# world, Perl shined on that day, because:

  1. It supports quick development. I quickly came up with some working scripts within 1 hour.
  2. It has strong regexp support. That's exactly what we wanted.
  3. Fast, it is not a problem for Perl to process series of big files with lightening speed.

Perl rocks!!!

In reply to Perl rocks!!! by pg

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