in reply to Altering SQL code from Update to Insert

There are a number of SQL parsers on CPAN. You may be able to use some of those.

But, why would you use Perl? Why not see if the database you're using can recreate the table from a series of Update statements ... I'm pretty sure some of them have utilities to do this ...

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