++, good argument.

I think .. learning.. that is.. knowing some tactics via which we can find the answers to our questions, is an art to itself.

ikegami, you're no novice to perl.. Personally I am what I would call a virgin intermediate coder in perl- with the occassional voyeur moment to an orgy.

I remember not that long ago, when I would look over something like the DBI docs and scan it. And then put it away. Maybe look at how to establish a connection, imagine to myself I had actually read the document, and not revisit it again. Thinking.. well, I've "read" the doc.. what I am asking myself now, must not be in the doc..

At this point in my open source/perl life, I know to revisit docs. I know that chances are, the answer is there.

When someone with access to a posix box asks how to find files by date created etc.. I feel a scolding slap come about my right arm.. the RTFM hand-down.
I do feel somewhere inside me- that this OP's question.. Can arguably be allowed to pass for a *not* RTFM moment. Given the doc we are talking about.

Dunno, I guess it's open for judgement.

In reply to Re^4: Getting database type from db handle by leocharre
in thread Getting database type from db handle by songahji

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