From: Mike Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > We have a project in which we receive invoices from many vendors. > > We will parse a series of fields from each invoice & save them to a > database. > > Assuming: > > [1] Every vendor's invoices will differ significantly by vendor. > > [2] All invoices for a given vendor will have a high degree of > similarity. > > [3] The hash of fields to be parsed is common to all invoices from all > vendors. > > > It seems reasonable that we could develop a "template" system; whereby, > given a vendor ID, one template can facilitate parsing all invoices for > that vendor. > > I have seen several Perl "template" modules, mostly for web > applications. > > Which Perl modules ought we to consider for our project, in lieu of > reinventing the wheel?
I don't think template is the right term, though I can't think of any better. In either case I think you can happily start inventing, I can't think of any modules that'd help you extract the needed data from plaintext files. I assume we are talking about plaintext, right? Jenda ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
