In addition to hotyopa's advice, it truly looks like you have a specific task at hand which you are trying to understand. To this end, take your mouse from the location of this node and drag it up to the textbox in the left portion of that colored bar. Type anything your heart desires and see what happens.

Seriously, you're asking for a whole lot of information, and doing it in a very general manner at that. Look through older nodes that deal with Sybase, Access, flat files, and whatever else you may need. You may find that the solution presents itself in a very clear and easy to implement way. Most likely, you'll have to massage the problem.

You are not far from help, for if you care to post specific problematic areas, someone will know the answer. But remember that a good post is one which helps us as much as we can help you. And from what I've seen, these monks can only help when they fully understand a problem.

ALL HAIL BRAK!!!

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

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