Boy, can I ever appreciate what you're saying! In this node, I mentioned that I reduced 150 lines of COBOL that was reading data from a CSV file to 10 lines of Perl -- and that was with error checking.

Perl is not the end-all and be-all, but I've never worked in another language that allows me to massage text data as quickly and easily as Perl.

Cheers,
Ovid

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