A big question indeed. I doubt that there is one script that does everything you want all at once, so you would be best to take things one at time.

First of all, look here for a good introductory tutorial that should head you off in the right direction. Perl Monks' own tutorials contain a wealth of information.

Next, epoptai's home node has links to a number of online books that you might want to keep handy. You might want to consider reverse engineering the scripts you have using these books, since (I assume) you know what they do, if not exactly how they do it.

Not sure what a particular function does? Try "perldoc -f" followed by the name of the function at the command line...

Specifically regarding databases and Perl, I found this tutorial very clear and concise for a newbie like me:

One of the most confusing things I found about Perl when I first started where the regular expressions (seen something like s/\t.?\\s/ in your code?). Check out String matching and Regular Expressions and Common Regex Gotchas for help on this issue.

I hope this has been of some help. Good luck...

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In reply to Re: Perl scripts to do extraction into Sybase by hotyopa
in thread Perl scripts to do extraction into Sybase by Anonymous Monk

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