Ralph H. Stoos Jr. wrote:
Perl is a name, not an acronym. Write Perl or perl, but never
PERL (unless you are yelling).
: OK, so here is the task. The first row I want to turn into
: variable names. Machine, PurgeSuccess, etc.
You probably don't want to do that. You may end up needing
symbolic references to access those variables. Using symbolic
references is frowned on. Another approach might use a hash which
has keys that match the column names. The values associated with
those keys would reference arrays of values from all the records.
: Then with that removed the real work happens. The script would
: then request which variables I would like to sort on or find
: records (rows) that contain the "matches" specified.
Are you going to rewrite the script for each different record
search? How often will different searches be needed? Who decides
the need for new searches (you, the boss, other programmers, users,
etc.)?
HTH,
Charles K. Clarkson
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