Ferry, Craig wrote:
>>
>> Please keep your responses to the perl.beginners group so that others
>> can both
>> provide input as well as learn from your experience. Thanks.
>>
>> I suggest you stick with Perl but process the data directly from the
>> database.
>> Take a look at the DBI module, whi
Hi Craig
Please keep your responses to the perl.beginners group so that others
can both
provide input as well as learn from your experience. Thanks.
I suggest you stick with Perl but process the data directly from the
database.
Take a look at the DBI module, which isn't a standard one and so may
Ferry, Craig wrote:
>
> My original data is in a database. I did really mean that field 1 in
> file a could be any part of field 1 in file b. I also forgot to
> mention that in addition to it being in any part of field 1 of file b, I
> have to strip out special characters from file b before do
Ferry, Craig wrote:
>
> I am new to perl and would appreciate any suggestions as to how to do
> the following.
>
> I have two files, one with 3.5 million records, the other with almost a
> million records. Basically here's what I need to do.
>
> See if field_1 in file_a is part of field_1 in fi
