On 7/21/11 Thu Jul 21, 2011 4:27 PM, "newbie01 perl" <newbie01.p...@gmail.com> scribbled:
> Hi all, > > In Oracle, there is a file named tnsnames.ora that contains connection > strings to Oracle Databases. > > At the moment the file is 10000+ lines long. We are currently having a > problem where the file is malformed, i.e. missing matching brackets. Can any > of the experts please advise how best to check for malformed stuff. > > I believe Perl is very good at doing this kind of stuff. I've managed to > find some command line options from Google and trying that out. > > For the meantime, hopefully someone from this group have had this same > problem in the fix and has a script that checks for malformity. There is a CPAN module called Text::Balanced that will extract substrings delimited by matching delimiters. Perhaps that can help. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/