Hardy, Well, I can think of other reasons to use it. I want to read through a bunch of fixed length databases, clean the data, move data around to temporary tables and then write the tables out to the desired file formats.
Thanks for your reply, Jeff M. Hardy Merrill wrote: > What is your goal? Is the file just a text file? The only reason > to use DBI is to interface with a database - if you don't have > to do stuff with a database, then don't use DBI. DBI is just a > perl module that provides a way(methods) to interact with a database. > Clarify your question and maybe we can help. > > -- > Hardy Merrill > Mission Critical Linux, Inc. > http://www.missioncriticallinux.com > > Jeff Mirabile [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I can't seem to find the method to simply parse a file line by line from > > beginning to end using DBI. I can do it with a "while" statement, but > > was wondering if there is a specific DBI way of doing this? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jeff Mirabile
