first, i had read that the /o would help wrt perl evaluating the variable, got the idea from the O'Reilly books...was I correct in my assumption?

second. We are extracting a lot of data from an existing billing system, formatting it using Perl, and building a huge flat file that someone (not me :)) is going to load into sql server. (not my idea)

We are using perl dbi scripts to extract the data from Oracle, then we process them using scripts based on the one above. It is not elegent, but we are not working with much time. Therefore our approach is

1. Build tables

2. Extract tables to file system (solaris)

3. Format files

4. Send the buggers out.

I know that this getting away from my original question, but should we have merged the dbi call scripts and the format scripts?

In reply to Re: Re: Search Efficiency by treebeard
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