in reply to Re: Sybase BCP date formatter
in thread Sybase BCP date formatter

Being very new to Perl, How is a bcp file called to this script?

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Re^3: Sybase BCP date formatter
by runrig (Abbot) on Dec 16, 2008 at 17:07 UTC
    It's not a full script, it's just a function to put into other programs. Call the function with the name of the file to "fix".
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      Sorry, I only know Korn Shell... Could you provide an example as I have an immediate need for a solution to my bcp output file issue. Any help would be extremely appreciate. Thx Rob
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        Create this program and fill in with jwkrahn's code above (untested): 
        #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

{
# Put jwkrahn's code here
}

for my $file (@ARGV) {
  fix_bcp_file($file);
}

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        Call this program with the names of the bcp files you want to fix as arguments. If you want to create a backup of your original files, then change this line:
        local ( $^I, @ARGV ) = ( '', $file );

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        to something like this:
        local ( $^I, @ARGV ) = ( '.bak', $file );

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