in reply to wanting to make a file of strings usable by SQL

use strict; my @lines = <>; chomp @lines; my $sql = '(' . join(",\n",( map { "'$_'" } @lines)) . ")\n"; print $sql;

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Re^2: wanting to make a file of strings usable by SQL
by beachbum (Beadle) on Dec 27, 2005 at 15:56 UTC
    ++helphand for using join.