in reply to Perl scripts to do extraction into Sybase

I've worked with Sybase, and Perl for years and from what you've told us I can't honestly make a good guess about the scripts on your system do at all. Seriously, what you are asking is like: "I have a car and all the screws are metric, can you tell me what brand of oil filter it uses?"

Unless the scripts themselves are well documented with comments no one here can tell you much of anything useful without seeing the code. You've asked exactly this question before and once again we're all going to tell you we don't email people, we have this whole great website to communicate with.

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