RE: Serious question on using Perl or not...

2004-07-27 Thread u235sentinel
Personally I figured the original coder would join this list and respond (or at least respond). If he's really interested in Perl then more questions/answer would come. Silence get's his request dropped from my short term memory :-) > > Wiggins d Anconia wrote: > > > Gregorie Hostettler wrote

RE: Serious question on using Perl or not...

2004-07-27 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Wiggins d Anconia wrote: > > Gregorie Hostettler wrote: > > > ... > > > As you can see when running this small piece of "code", as soon as > > > you push a new record, all records already existing become > > > filled with the new pushed record and it is impossible to get any > > > other... > > >

RE: Serious question on using Perl or not...

2004-07-27 Thread Bob Showalter
Wiggins d Anconia wrote: > Gregorie Hostettler wrote: > > ... > > As you can see when running this small piece of "code", as soon as > > you push a new record, all records already existing become > > filled with the new pushed record and it is impossible to get any > > other... > > > > Looks like

Re: Serious question on using Perl or not...

2004-07-26 Thread Chris Devers
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Wiggins d Anconia wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Gregoire Hostettler wrote: I already spent more than 20 hours for something which should take 30 minutes [] Looks like Perl is not able to handle trivial data structure like an array of records (or hashes). Sure it can, and

Re: Serious question on using Perl or not...

2004-07-26 Thread u235sentinel
Several ways come to mind including hashs or possibly an array. If it doesn't have to stay in memory (I know he said memory.. just exploring options), it's always possible to setup maybe a DBM hash and write/pull off of that (Yes I know it was already mentioned... I'm agreeing with Wiggins basi

Re: Serious question on using Perl or not...

2004-07-26 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> > Hi! > > I do not know I am on the right mailing list. > If not, sorry for the burden. > The advocacy list is not the appropriate list, so I have bcc'd it so it gets dropped from the discussion. Your question is better asked to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, I have copied it so that it is in the