Re: Removing unessary data

With all due respect you've simply posted a sepc of what you've been told to produce, and a reasonably well documented script which does something very similar. Perhaps you should see this as the learning exercise it's clearly intended to be rather than just ask someone else to do it for you.

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Re^2: Removing unessary data by Anonymous Monk on Jul 21, 2011 at 13:51 UTC
My understanding of the OP question Is it possible to pin point what needs to be removed, is remove the whole script, and start from scratch :) perlintro, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, DBI http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/JMCNAMARA/Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.59/sample/dmpEx.pl site:perlmonks.org spreadsheet dbi Re^6: Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Script Fails to Parse (access) Excel Spreadsheet	[reply]
Re^3: Removing unessary data by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 21, 2011 at 13:53 UTC
Perhaps, though that could simply mean the they need to be able to read and understand the code and the comments provided in order to find out what can be removed and what needs to be changed :) Update: Wrinting their own script seems to be out of the question	[reply]
Re^2: Removing unessary data by reidlos65 (Initiate) on Jul 21, 2011 at 13:53 UTC
Yes I figured that's what it would come to seem, it wasn't intended as that however, I am not a scriptwriter, nor does my job require me to do/learn it. It is a side project that doesn't have alot of time for it. This is like giving me a short story in German, and asking to spell check it for me. (I don't know German) I was asking more of at least the best way to weed out the large amount of unneeded code.	[reply]
Re^3: Removing unessary data by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 21, 2011 at 14:04 UTC
If you have no incentive to learn Perl, or how to read the comments and work out which parts aren't needed to complete the task you've been given, perhaps it's best to tell the person who assigned you this task that you don't "have alot of time for it" and that you're "not a scriptwriter, nor does my job require me to do/learn it". It's pretty well commented, it's pretty much all done for you, there's no real short cut. Writing a script on your own to achieve this task will be out of the question if you refuse to learn how to use the tools required to do the job. Update: s/insentive/incentive/ thanks toolic	[reply]