Re: copying records from one file to another with filter.

>perl -ne"next unless /^4-Dec-2009/; print; last }{ print while <>" ju
+nk.dat
4-Dec-2009,78,198
5-Dec-2009,98,155
6-Dec-2009,10,180
7-Dec-2009,51,91
8-Dec-2009,32,130
9-Dec-2009,29,207
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Re^2: copying records from one file to another with filter. by avanta (Beadle) on Jan 09, 2010 at 18:16 UTC
Im sorry but I didnt get how this code works... Im tryin to write this code for an ETL process. here my DB is a flat file. I need to filter our records as per a date range, eg. last 30 days or smthing like that and write it to a new file..	[reply]