Today I wrote a preparation script for the oracle sqlloader. Some of the records I needed to load were expected to be already in the table. The script should take a file and generate delete statements for each records primary key. I thought Perls inplace edit feature would be a quick way to generate the list and I came up with the following solution. 
cp insert.data delete.sql

perl -F';' -ani -e 'print "delete from atable where afield = $F[0]\n";
+ END {print "quit\n"}' delete.sql

sqlplus ...  @delete.sql

sqlldr loadme.ctl

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Everything seemed to work except the "quit" line I added to quit sqlplus. It was printed to STDOUT instead delete.sql
Why is it not added as the last line of delete.sql? I fixed it with echo quit >> delete.sql
The second question I have is a general one and OT. Is this a reasonable way to update an Oracle 8 Database table?

In reply to inplace edit and END block by codeacrobat

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