Programming the perl DBI would be a good book. Also learning perl from
O'reilly is fairly good.
If you get perl from activestate.com you get the perl documentation in html
format. Very good and worth reading.
Try read the different tutorials. I suggest perlsyn, perlop, and perl sub.
Also make a nice architecture for your application and avoid connecting to a
database from a CGI script.
try some layered architecture like this:
CGI-script.pl
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yourdatamodule.pm
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DBI/DBD
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Oracle database
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 8:04 PM
Subject: RE: I am a real begginer to perl......
> I am also a beginner and wondering if there are any other recommended
> books other than the camel book from O'Reilly. I have been asked to
> display information from the Oracle Database on the web using Perl and
> CGI. So far, I mostly know how to check for patterns. Gulp!!
>
> Thanks for any input.
>
> Olivier
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Paul [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 2:05 PM
> >To: n6tadam; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: I am a real begginer to perl......
> >
> >
> >--- n6tadam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Dear All,
> >>
> >> I wonder if someone could help me. I have been programming in bash
> >> for years
> >> now, but I have decided that I would like to use perl.
> >>
> >> My question is: "how do I tell perl to open a file for reading, do
> >> various commands, and then output those changes to a new file"???
> >
> >lol -- you'll have to be more specific.
> >My best suggestion is that you just sit down with perldoc perlfunc and
> >look for commands like open() that look useful to the task at hand.
> >
> >For examples, to open a file for reads,
> > open F1, $file or die $!;
> >then read a line from it with
> > $line = <F1>;
> >
> >"do various commands" is horribly vague. Perl is often called a
> >"scripting language", but in though it's convenient code like bash,
> >it's probably functionally closer to C. It's a high level language,
> >complete with bit operators and anonymous memory allocation and complex
> >data structures. Assuming editing, though, try opening the file as
> >above, and just printing your results to STDOUT, which you can direct
> >as you like from the command line. i.e., once $line is edited to your
> >liking, just
> > print $line;
> >
> >then you can use standard bash command-line redirection of output and
> >error messages as you're already wont to do. =o)
> >
> >Paul
> >
> >> Thanks in Anticipation,
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Thomas Adam
> >>
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