I'm an IT monkey for the project management team (the PHBs of the PHBs) in a corporate IT department. A while ago I decided to start learning Perl so I wrote a 150 line script (most of it is just SQL) to automate the process of running several ODBC queries in Access and dump that information into a formatted Excel spreadsheet. Doing it Perl has the benefits of not having to use Access, which is demon-spawn. If there ever arises a need for something new (most of my work is reporting) Perl will undoubtably be my first choice. Working with VBA last year atrophied my brain.



Everything is true." "Even false things?" "Even false things are true" "How can that be?" "I dunno man, I didn't do it."

In reply to Re: How has Perl saved you time at your job this week|month|year|decade? by xyzzy
in thread How has Perl saved you time at your job this week|month|year|decade? by missingthepoint

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