RE: search and return a value from a table

2001-08-09 Thread Camilo Gonzalez
Hmmm, didn't we cover overly general questions recently? Are you new to this group, Cynhsieh? Have you read any Perl books or taken any Perl classes? I apoligize if I sound a bit harsh. I'm no Perl expert by any means. I applaud you for choosing Perl for this task. You must realise however, that

Re: search and return a value from a table

2001-08-09 Thread Roger C Haslock
What sort of database engine are you using? If this has an SQL interface, you would write something like select age from tablename where name='zzz'; ... and you would post the query to an SQL group. See recent 'very funny' discussion: this is not a perl query. - Roger - - Original Message