That is exactly my stand too. I have found it much easier to learn some simple and re-useable MySQL functions using the DBI module, than to learn regex and all the other crap associated with manipulating strings etc.
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Crook, Richard W wrote: > Well from a beginner's point of view, plus the KISS priciple I'd say you > should keep your data in a database like MySQL. You would then organize the > data by: > > USERNAME FULLNAME COMPANY OWING > username1 fullname1 company1 owing1 > username2 fullname2 company2 owing2 > > Where you access the data for each person via the unique username. > If you still want to use PERL then maybe you should keep the data in a > seperate file and parse though it instead of keeping the data in a > multidemensional hash. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Falkenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 5:38 PM > To: Timothy Johnson > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Can I set this as a hash? > > > I am still new to Perl as well. > > I want the end result to look like the following... > > USERNAME FULLNAME COMPANY OWING > username1 fullname1 company1 owing1 > username2 fullname2 company2 owing2 > > and so on.... > > Then I need for a user to type in their username and I need my script to > be able to extract the rest of the data such as if the user enters > username1 as their username I need to display... > > fullname1 company1 owing1. > > Does this make sense? > > Regards, > > Dan > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Timothy Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 26 March 2002 11:46 AM > To: 'Matthew Harrison'; Daniel Falkenberg > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Can I set this as a hash? > > > > Or perhaps a list of lists... Maybe you should describe your HOH better. > What do you want the end result to look like? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 5:18 PM > To: Daniel Falkenberg > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Can I set this as a hash? > > > I know i'm still only learning perl so feel free to ignore me if i've > said > something stupid, but wouldn't tha be better as a list instead of a > hash? > > On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Daniel Falkenberg wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > Just wondering how I would go about setting up the following hash and > if > > it would be wise to do it this way? > > > > I have the following data... > > > > $username $company $fullname $owing > > > > I want to place all of this in a hash of a hash... > > > > %name_of hash = > > "Username1" => "Company1" => "$fullname1" => "$owing" > > > > So basically I want to populate the hash with the above data. Here is > > there perl code I have so far... > > > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > > > > use Data::Dumper; > > > > > > $FILE_NAME = "vintekdb_query_250302.txt"; > > $USER_DATA = "/var/www/cgi-bin/$FILE_NAME"; > > > > sub read_data { > > open USER_DATA, "$USER_DATA" or warn "cannot open '$USER_DATA' for > > reading: $!\n"; > > flock(USER_DATA, 2) || warn "Can't lock $USER_DATA exclusively: $!"; > > while( $USER_DATA=<USER_DATA> ) { > > @USER_DATA = split (/,/, $USER_DATA); > > s/^"|"$//g foreach @USER_DATA; > > $username = $USER_DATA[0]; > > $fullname = $USERDATA[1]; > > $company = $USERDATA[2]; > > $owing = $USERDATA[3]; > > #CREATE HASH OF HASH HERE > > } > > } > > close USER_DATA; > > return %users; #NAME OF HASH > > } > > > > read_data(); > > > > Does any one have any ideas on how I would go about this? Is this > even > > the best way to do something like this? > > > > Regards, > > > > Dan > > > > > > -- Matthew Harrison Internet/Network Services Administrator Peanut-Butter Cheesecake Hosting Services Genestate www.peanutbuttercheesecake.co.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
