On 20/6/01 at 3:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Fowler) wrote:
Thank for your help, I'll try some of it out and let you know. The data
comes from a mainframe system and going to be loaded into MS SQL Server
database. I am really impressed by Perl, it can do easy things so
quickly.
>
> > my @
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 08:29:05PM +0100, Mark Bedish wrote:
> I am putting tabs between the fields and then changing the a13 which is
> a tso overpunch to its decimal equiv, e.g. 1234} means -123.40 .
How.. odd.
> As I hinted, my code is very procedural as I am not used to Perl yet.
Procedur
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:41:29PM +0100, Mark Bedish wrote:
> I am using substrings in a screipt and wondered if there was a better
> perlish way to do it. I am taking data from a mainframe system and
> reformatting it but the substring seems to be quite slow, like visual
> basic, the original.
>
This is my first posting so forgive my ignorance.
I am using substrings in a screipt and wondered if there was a better
perlish way to do it. I am taking data from a mainframe system and
reformatting it but the substring seems to be quite slow, like visual
basic, the original.
Any pointers on a
