Hi,

I am a Perl beginner. I want to query a DB and output the result row by row to text files.

eg.
sr.no. Name CodeBlock
1. mail afdsklj
afdskj
adsfasfddsaf

2. abcd l;kk;k;oiewrj
werkdsmjudjem
werjhdsujnsl
afl;af;lweorpi

3. wxyz adskflasflkafdj
kajdsflkjadslkjfa

output should be 3 text files
namely mail with content
afdsklj
afdskj
adsfasfddsaf
abcd with content
l;kk;k;oiewrj
werkdsmjudjem
werjhdsujnsl
afl;af;lweorpi
and wxyz with content
adskflasflkafdj
kajdsflkjadslkjfa
.
I am getting stuck because my code block is of variable length.
The codeblock contains several new line characters, tab and several
other commonly used separators. Hence, I am using a shell script to query
the db. The shell script outputs my query result separated by a string "(_KJ_)".


I tried using while $sqlout regmatch "(_KJ_)" create file and
and copy content to file close file. but with this I get just the first file.
I am unable to get perl read till the end of the file.

Please Help
KJ..

In reply to export table to text. by kirtivardhan

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