Another way to look at it is in terms of metadata.
A SQL database table is a common and convenient way to manage that metadata
in the form of a table definition - including data type and NULL/NOT NULL
for each data item (aka column).
But there are other ways to skin that cat (poor cat). Your
JR == Jim Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JR I'm missing something here. Why can't you just test to see if the
JR variable is defined or not on your script?
because he doesn't know in the code what the list of fields is. he needs
to either parse the html survey page or have some other file
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 10:43 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
JR == Jim Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JR I'm missing something here. Why can't you just test to see if the
JR variable is defined or not on your script?
because he doesn't know in the code what the list of fields is. he needs
On Fri, 27 May 2005, Uri Guttman wrote:
JR == Jim Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JR I'm missing something here. Why can't you just test to see
JR if the variable is defined or not on your script?
because he doesn't know in the code what the list of fields is.
This probably -- read,
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 11:16 -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Alex Brelsfoard wrote:
Picture a web form that is some sort of a survey. When that survey is
submit the perl script writes out the answers onto a file. That file
is tab delimited.
Stop right there, doctor, I