2 issues for you, best tackled one at a time. I've had to learn to do them both over the last little while, and barely suffered at all :)

1. Reading flat files. This is a v. basic example which reads the file line at a time and prints the results. You could modify this approach to send to Sybase instead:

   #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
   
   if (open(MYFILE, "path/to/file")) {
           $line = <MYFILE>;
           while ($line ne "") {
                   print ($line);
                   $line = <MYFILE>;
           }
   }
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2. Talking to a Sybase database. You'll need to come to grips with DBI/DBD. I doubt you will find it too difficult. It is pretty much a case of connecting to the database, executing an SQL command, then retrieving the results. The Tricks with DBI tutorial by btrott should head you off in the right direction.

   Have a look at davorg's reply below as well :)

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